With pure play debunked, the market contracting and revenues declining. What do you see as the real business model for the next deacade? Other than cutting costs as much as possible and carrying on blindly like before hoping it all work out. Is there really a plan to take this once brilliant company forward? And do you see this plan working or is it all now just about making as much money as possible before there's nothing left?
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I thought both of these comments were spot to be honest.
"Sounds familiar... Interestingly enough, that used to be Motorola's reputation as well. There was a time - now seemingly in distant history - where if someone found out you worked for Motorola, the first words out of their mouths were 'great company - incredible R&D investment, and takes care of its people'...
Eventually, the pressure for ever more unrealistic 'shareholder value' will cause things like R&D to be viewed as frivolous, and employees to be nothing but assets to be depreciated and discarded. Like Motorola, the latter appears to be already underway, but the reputation built up lingers for a time with the workers and the public."
"About GPTW... I am an ex NetApp employee and I concur that NetApp has been a great place to work at least for a while. The problem with the GPRW rating and the so called "culture" is that it has made NetApp management complacent. NetApp does not have an aptitude test for managers, nor do most managers know how to manage employees. In addition the flawed employee rating system (stack ranking) further undermines any need for management to manage employees. That is the reason NetApp has so many self proclaimed "leaders" and so few good managers...
With so much focus on maintaining a happy culture, managers hire friends and personality rather than skill... The assumption that "everybody just wants to work for NetApp" has become the main recruitment tool while HR has little to no say in recruitment. The sole purpose of NetApp HR is the create the illusion that the Recruitment process appears fair to outsiders, while so called managers perform all sorts of stunts to manage people out and friends in. HR are an accomplice to this practice. Most NetApp employee's simply do not have access to HR until the their time for "exit". NetApp HR spend more time "exiting" employees than onboarding -or whatever else HR is meant to do."
http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2016/11/03/netapp_shrinks_headcount_yet_again/
Can't compete with cloud players and will drag along until Eupore and APAC still are skeptical about Cloud. The end game seems to be becoming very lean and then being acquired.
I fear that we are the next Novell, soon to become a niche player after leading the market for decades.