A little too proud of how they think they treat their employees
A little too proud of how they think they treat their employees
NetApp had good cash flow, allowing them a nice campus with a phenomenal gym. The pay was above Silicon Valley average, based on what I saw.
They seemed to have taken their corporate culture from former Sun employees. They grew too quickly and then, realizing their mistake, laid off 10% of the company in 2013, and more the year after.
The engineering bureaucracy had become so convoluted that it was difficult to get anything done on a macro scale in a short amount of time. Everything had a committee, forcing small groups to ignore the rules and regulations to just get things done.
Stop spending so much time congratulating yourselves on being a great place to work. When you've laid off 10% of your employees, it is, perforce, not a great place to work.
Spend time reviewing engineering processes and decentralize them to reduce the bottlenecks that exist.
There is a lot of engineering debt that needs to be paid. Pay the price and fix the problems in engineering instead of just hoping it will be fixed magically.
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Software Licensing Manager
Sunnyvale, California, United StatesNovember 1, 2012The initial hiring process was quite quick. However, there were delays due to the HR lead leaving the company and a holiday shutdown. Ultimately, the process got back on track, leading to an offer which I accepted. I made direct contact with HR via
Technical Manager
Sunnyvale, California, United StatesJanuary 1, 2008I initially worked through a recruiter who was a NetApp employee. They described the job, the office, the culture, projects, opportunities, and the team I'd be working with. The initial interview was an all-day event where I met with six or seven in
Software Engineer- Database Team
Sunnyvale, California, United StatesAugust 1, 2010The hiring manager was friendly. Questions were too specific, requiring deep knowledge of RAID and OS kernels, as well as threading and deadlocks.
