I think the problem with Netapp now is NOT the people who are WORKING. It is the Leadership team who is eating all the free money with nothing to offer and decides to lay off ICs for the situation they landed all in. For the decisions, they made that led to failures once, twice, and more. Hiring leaders from big companies like Microsoft got us nothing except for Netapp filling the pockets of those leaders with more money that could be used to hire more ICs. Netapp axed ICs instead of leaders this time - why are the leaders who made the wrong decisions not impacted? WHYYYY???
PATHETIC LEADERSHIP AT NETAPP
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Mignona Cote and Phillip Miller were brought in over a, year as, buddies of George to clean up security. It was, political before and even worse now.
I miss Tom Mendoza at NetApp, he was awesome!!
NetApp hasn't had leadership since Dan Warmenhoven and Tom Mendoza left, the culture has been in a downfall ever since.
Netapp Leadership? HA HA HA HA HA LOL! Whew .... good one. Look to the next quarter, buy a company after sketchy "due dilligence", realize "oh sh-t .... we were sold a bill of goods", rinse and repeat. You mean that leadership?
Can't innovate, can't even evaluate external technology, pretend that competition can't catch up and surpass, and keep drinking the Coolaid that "I'm a fu----g DEMON" (kudos if you got the reference) ... and yeah, eventually that inertial forward motion will come to an end.
Been watching it happen for the last 10 years. No surprise.
kM
Didn't you post this exact reply in another thread? You just had to create you own now?
They really have lost the pulse of the field and their customers. Currently trying to chase their competitors instead of leading with innovation. Tons of truly bewildering decisions that have confused and angered customers.
Agreed that leadership should improve at netapp, but that has always been a weakness in the company.
I think this layoff is more of a reaction the global economic outlook and leadership’s means to correct course.
I think some middle managers and higher ups were let go. Of course, as with all companies, ICs are the ones primarily impacted during a layoff because the managers are the ones running the company and making the decisions. People on the top like the CEO have the ability to shake up upper management and I think they do…as an example, top marketing exec suddenly announced he was leaving and was quickly replaced some time ago. He probably got fired.
This is 100% true. In recent years, too many "top" managers have been hired from outside who certainly don't work for free.