Great people, good executive management, not-so-great middle management. - Technical Support Engineer NetApp Employee Review

3.0
23 May 2009
Recommend
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Pros

The benefits at NetApp are great and the pay compared to other, non-IT companies is above average. The people who work there tend to be good, fun people on a personal level and are on the whole incredibly bright.

Cons

Depending on who is your manager, your experience can vary widely. In general management does not do a good job of making sure information flows all the way down the ladder, nor does it solicit input from those two or more steps below on the hierarchy. It is often said that management is open to input, just make sure it is not something they do not want to hear. Because employees are very intelligent, they also tend to have an ego. This causes friction when neither party can accept that they may be wrong.

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5.0
18 Jun 2026
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Pros

Good work life balance (in my team)

Cons

Leadership is bad, stay away!

3.0
9 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Not the worst pay around - Opportunity for advancement if you get the right management - Good financial benefits (ESPP, 401k options, mega backdoor Roth) - The one thing GK is good at is driving up the company stock price. Hope you got yourself some RSUs

Cons

- NetApp hasn't made a new product in 10 years, so you'll be hard pressed to find development work that isn't directly tied to supporting what was built before then. - Very little innovation other than weekend-project-level AI tools - Health and dental benefits are not great - Upper management is completely detached from reality

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