NetApp

• Well-respected products, established brand.
• A soup-to-nuts integrated system provides a good framework for innovation.
• Most engineers are very competent; likewise, most executives.

The special attributes that made the company so successful have dissipated, becoming "just another big corporation."

Review and promotion processes are capricious, and employees get no opportunity to give feedback about the performance of their management.

Poorly conceived processes weigh down engineers and make simple improvements ridiculously hard.

Despite hand-wringing about quality, code quality is ignored; processes encourage a band-aid-only approach, resulting in a complicated mess.

Getting anything major accomplished requires enormous patience and tenacity; many efforts slide out for years.

Increasingly, a stale, inbred, and non-creative environment.