Good GPTW result = one extra day of vacation ... still surprised about the unreal b... sh.... result ?
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I remember being privy to the brief employee satisfaction committee that was formed. When they actually started providing feedback that the higher ups didn't want to hear they disbanded it.
The problem is that GPTW just asks for your direct manager, not for the company's management in general. Otherwise, results would be devastating.
My direct manager is a great guy, a personal friend and a boss anyone can dream of. Shall I blame him in the survey for the s--- some of the guys in Sunnyvale, CA are doing?
This explains the results and nothing else.
sorry to see that you are so bitter about getting RIFd
netapp is just like any other place, i found it to be a pretty good big company. i thought that the upper management were out of touch with the marketplace in the georgens regime. waiting to see how netapp fares under the kurian regime.
unfortunately in high tech, its boom or bust, and they cannot manage year to year, but it seems like quarter to quarter mangement now. at the lower levels, for a big company, i found that senior , people were pretty good in general, of course there were exceptions.
as the IT equipment marketplace is contracting in revenue growth, it is difficult for netapp to grow.
on a personal note, i thought my four and half years at netapp were some of the best times of my professional career. i was always treated professionally by most people, and most people seem to care about their jobs.
of course there exceptions, but that is true anywhere you go.
You know, it's funny.... I was at NetApp for 6 years. For my first five years, I cared. Yeah, for the first time in my career, I drank the Koolade! Part of that caring were respectful, but hopefully constructive criticisms to the tune of "I understand and respect what you are saying, but have you considered XYZ? I'd be happy to work with the team to explore this yadda-yadda, etc" all of which gradually disappeared into a black hole. I found out that I was far from the only person seeing issues or trying to nudge things in the right direction.
Maybe I was chickensh-t for not SHOUTING and really fighting for what I saw and thought? Could be, except I saw those people who did object loudly getting "managed out" of the company or getting swept up in the layoffs.
Then I stopped caring. My new motto was "Yeah, everything's great, whatever you say!" All of a sudden, I was getting the best assignments, my reviews got better, and - big surprise! I got "randomly" picked for "anonymous" GPTW surveys. Of course, by then I was looking for a new gig, so I wrote the truth as I saw it in those surveys... surprise again, NetApp withdrew itself from the ranking that year. As I wrote, it's funny.
I think that what's truly sad is that NetApp stopped being a place to care about, it turned into just a job to hang onto untill the next gig. Yes, yes, in the end you should always care about yourself first, but... it was great being part of a great team. It was great to work with a NetApper from Bangalore, or Munich, or Sydney, or wherever and feel that you had a common purpose. Yes, we all fought with each other, but we fought like brothers and sisters. THAT NetApp was a great place to work , and sadly, that NetApp is gone.
People who are happy and who aren't both got impacted smart a**. Here we discuss layoffs and not who happy!
It's almost like the people who are happy and the people who are unhappy are different people. Amazing.