NetApp

Good work/life balance. Friendly people. Free snacks, drinks, and beer bashes.

• Not a good place to start off your career.
• Most of the time is involved in bug fixes, with very little development.
• Too much of a work-life balance leads to laziness in employees.
• New joinees are almost treated as newbies and not given any responsibilities, leading to a sense of complacency in them.
• Higher management is not proactive and lacks innovation in products.
• Most importantly, frequent layoffs/reorgs created a sense of insecurity in the employees.

Hiring and firing has become a very common activity at NetApp.

People join with a lot of enthusiasm to learn new things and thereby keep the company growing, but when the outlook of the company is not optimistic, good folks also start looking out.

Advice to the management: Please hire only if needed. NetApp is an innovation-oriented company. Products differentiate NetApp from others. Look at what the competitors are doing and focus on developing innovative products rather than just hiring.

Please stop boasting that NetApp is ranked in the top ten Best Places to Work and try attracting people. There are many other companies out there which are ranked as the best places but never use it to attract folks.