Netapp - yay or nay?
Guys, anyone who works for Netapp Sunnyvale here? If so, can you help me with these questions: 1. What’s exciting and new in Netapp? 2. What is the company culture like at Netapp? 3. How is Netapp coping up with the industry moving away from box storage to public cloud ? 4. What’s the general intellect like ? 5. Is it a good time to join Netapp? Any comments around this topic would be highly appreciated. Thankyou.
I will never consider Netapp unless they do the following. 1. Get rid of the people who are around 60 2. Enough of WAFL. Kill it. 3. Prune the internal nodes of the org tree 4. Reduce office politics Dont go there unless you need a leasure job and you are already bored of learning. They are staying profitable by selling the buildings they planned a long time ago.
Nay
These are excellent questions. Ask NetApp and report back here.
I am hoping to get answers to these questions. Will post the results of my search 😃
1. Solidfire is growing fairly fast 2. Engineering driven but fairly political. Depends on the team really. 3. Azure will soon sell NFSaaS with NetApp storage. Smaller cloud service providers also resell our stuff but don't advertise it as such. 4. Team dependent. Core platform teams know what they're doing, manageability teams not so much. 5. I would wait 6 months and reevaluate. Right now it's very low growth.
Thankyou for your reply. This is very helpful
It like many other companies depends on the skill level, complexity management and where you want to be. If new like some years of experience and good general skills with willingness to learn, any where is great. Just be ready to move to another team (and looking for it).0 If more seasoned and a go getter then it is team dependent. There are teams that are doing wonderful things. Teams mired in who knows what and some teams that need to have managers and engineers let go. The great news is that the overall company is competing and slowly make hard decisions as compared to the 5 science projects all solving the same problem when money and people was falling out of the sky.
Stay away from NetApp. Specially from the SaaS backup team. The higher management will suck your blood.
Oh god that SaaS thing is a dumpster fire
Worst team and management ever, stay away from SaaS data protection.
Are you talking about SolidFire? Their recruiters suck balls. They reached out to me in the past and after a couple of missed appointments I told them to fuck off.
Yikes! I am talking about the parent company Netapp. Solid fire is in Denver right?!
Yeah