Thread regarding NetApp layoffs

NetApp no longer a Great Place to Work in US and It's the Lowly Employees Fault

Thanks GK, we now know whose fault it really is for the deterioration of NetApp culture. We, the pawns of the company, of course are to blame for NetApp falling off the GPTW list for the US this year when we didn't even belong to the list the previous years. I absolutely love it when you layoff my hardworking friends who make 1/66th of your yearly salary. They must have been extra complacent and entitled for you to bring out your knife.

We're not eating your bullshit any longer and certainly not taking the blame for your incompetence.

by Anonymous
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Comment! It's anonymous!

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It is the colonical example

Ha ha ha ha ha .... you win!!!

by Anonymous
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Netapp is so done. It is the colonical example of just how hard it is to pivot when your industry gets disrupted. I am upset that we were unable to turn it around but life after Netapp is 1000% more interesting than life at Netapp. The days fly by and I love what I am doing.

Good luck everyone!

by Anonymous
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CEO - Chief Exodus Officer ? What a joke that mail was today. Tons of people have to go and GK still worries about the marketing fart called GPTW. I have seen broken people left, right and center during the last 24 hours, Where is the transparency you promised Mr. Jack the Knife ? I only see a transparent bucket, full of shit.

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @cvv+GeNwiyK

So great to send out a GPTW e-mail blaahh after tons of people have been let go! Way to go curryman!!

by Anonymous
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Absolutely right! CDOT won't save the company -- heck it's not really clustering but rather a mere shared-global-name-space -- because it's 10 year old technology that no one other than diehard Netapp customers want. Do you realize that this is now Netapp's 7th layoff and 5 in the last 4 years. GK is no worse than his predecessor but he's no better either. The cloud strategy that is "Data Fabric"? You've gotta be kidding me. CDOT adoption? Yeah right. EF, with no data efficiency features, that is "fast growing"? Here, pull the other one. And now Solidfire? A 3rd rate AFA that competitors like Pure and Nimble just laugh at.

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @ekz+GeNwiyK

the snark level on this site is hard to stomach. I was at NTAP until last month and I don't think GK has had sufficient runway to prove his mettle either way yet. As his predecessor said "as goes CDOT so goes NetApp"...well CDOT was complicated (but good) and the upgrade path was not smooth enough. Combine that with pressure from the public cloud and the slow start in the Flash space and you get an equation the explains the NTAP stock slide. I *do think the SolidFire acquisition was a good one and the decision to let them remain independent for a while is the right call. That you can rightly attribute to GK. Most of the rest happened prior to his being CEO. Yes layoffs suck but the fact is that AWS is a disrupter and the storage industry as a whole is suffering so blaming NetApp for that seems misdirected.

by Former NTAP'er
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Post ID: @dfe+GeNwiyK

Bitter? Come now. GK is the best CEO ever, Netapp is the best place to work and ONTAP is the answer to every question. Now, bury your snark and get back to work. Us shareholders need your sweat-equity.

by Anonymous
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