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Good Pay, Stressed Team

Senior Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at NetApp for 20 years
January 22, 2017
Sunnyvale, California
3.0
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Good compensation and benefits. Flexible work hours. Some reasonable autonomy to choose what sort of projects to work on. New-ish office/facilities.

Cons

Definitely not the same company it was a few years ago.

There have been multiple rounds of layoffs and a high attrition rate over the past few years. Every project and team is starved for resources, yet still challenged to deliver content on very fixed deadlines.

Advice to Management

Stop pressuring engineers to deliver "on schedule" at the expense of long-term maintainability and quality.

There's already too much of an expertise gap due to attrition, and good engineers will only stay on a sinking ship with good benefits for so long.

Focus on individual growth and craftsmanship, rather than on demonstrating short-term progress.

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