Thread regarding NetApp layoffs

I was impacted

I was impacted, laid off and or fired however you want to view it. I am relieved its over and have had many friends reach out to me to coordinate interviews and connections at companies they are at. I am confident in my ability to have something by the time my severance dissipates.

Having been around NetApp since 2008 I was excited with the SolidFire buy and it offered hope of a fresh line card. Alas NetApp has dusted off Dave Hits whom I respect a ton and is a genius to go promote this. Problem is they are going about selling SolidFire wrong. This whole dev ops , test kitchen super cool whiz bang Facebook data center they are selling it to is so wrong. They are confusing the sales reps, limiting the scope of the customer they are going at when the Sad reality is SolidFire should be our mid market play as well. Set it and forget it

Oh well I guess putting a message like that on twitter just isn't cool.

NetApp has one identifying trait through all their culture....over complication and over engineering and now they are just doing the same to SolidFire.

Getting laid off s---s and I am not bitter , I've made my living off NetApp for 8+ years. I do see NetApp needs acquired and folded in somewhere. NetApp execs need to do one of two things

  1. Contract and just go sell AFF in the Enterprise and be a profitable 3B company

  2. Get rid of the old guard and go grow...look up alcoholics definition of insanity and that is what NetApp leadership is

Sad because it could be so much more, and I will miss my friends

To those left behind this isn't the end of the RIF, sleep with one eye open

by Anonymous
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Comment! It's anonymous!

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Getting hit a few weeks before Thanksgiving was pure evil. Most people who were hit still don't have jobs. Thanks GK!!!

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I agree with the last poster... Being told that you're getting the Kurian knife but it had nothing to do with your performance is hollow consolation. Then tell me exactly why I was axed? Even something like 'we figured we could do what you were doing with less people' or 'we didn't think we needed as many people doing what you were doing'. Spinelessness shows bad character and is disrespectful.

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I think the worst part for me was having my managers and peers - who I considered friends - tell me that they were sorry, it wasn't personal, it was just business, then come to find out that they were the ones who put my name on the list as the first to go. I guess I'm sad that the culture didn't used to be so backstabbing. Reminds me of Nortel. Survival of the most devious and under-handed? Guess I'm proud that I didn't resort to selling anyone else out to guard my future.

by I was laid off, too.
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Age and salary. That's the criteria.

by Anonymous
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I too was impacted and couldn't agree with you more. I was a bit taken back by the decisions made. It didn't seem like there was any rhyme or reason with regard to how they let people go. I definitely made my number and had pipeline for the next 6 months and people such as yourself with 8+ years of experience along with people like myself with only 2. I believe they made the right choice by reducing force I just don't agree with the approach. They didn't appear to have a strategy behind the layoffs. I was shocked but relieved at the same time when I got the call. I believe they took care of us with the severance package. My situation would've been much worse if they hadn't.

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