The thought of severance is the only reason I am still here. Otherwise, I would have left long ago given the uncertainty and constant stress.
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Emea support teams are already being replaced with cheaper workforce from nb. I know I will be replaced in 2 to 5 years by either ai or cheaper nb employee.
Will sit it out for the severence but keep doing my job as good as I have always done. Getting a pip here in emea is very difficult anyway due to good labor laws if you perform well.
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@xz if you're in the UK then you know that the managers and directors only look out for themselves.
If you're not happy at NetApp, please leave. Your time is more valuable than a potential severance package. Go do something you enjoy.
Foolish.
The job market is not simple or good enough at this time to simply say "go do something you enjoy". Most employees are happy to do their work, and will do so efficiently if given the opportunity. The problem is not the work. The reason many current NetApp employees are dissatisfied is rooted in poor internal leadership decisions and return-to-office mandates that lack meaningful business justification.
The most plausible explanation for these mandates is not productivity or collaboration, but economic pressure from municipalities seeking to protect local tax bases and from commercial real-estate stakeholders whose investments depend on office occupancy. In effect, leadership is compelled to justify the sunk costs of physical offices.
At best, employees are being stripped of tangible, life-improving benefits so executives can appear decisive and aligned to the board. At worst, those benefits are being revoked simply because “leadership says so,” with no substantiated rationale whatsoever.
Keep in mind this is all happening against a backdrop of an unstable job market. An industry-wide fixation on AI has hollowed out opportunities for junior and even mid-level engineers, leaving few viable alternatives. Given these conditions, it is entirely rational for employees to avoid voluntarily leaving their roles. In such a market, severance provides protection against prolonged unemployment, which makes voluntary attrition through resignation an unreasonable expectation for workers facing bad decisions driven by leadership and not business necessity.
People normally run from bad managers, directors and VPs and poor leadership decisions. But in this market, people can't simply flee to another company. Many employees are here to do the job they signed up for, and will do it well, but are actively losing their hard-earned benefits while having AI-in-everything shoved down their throats.
If you're not happy at NetApp, please leave. Your time is more valuable than a potential severance package. Go do something you enjoy.
@xz Directors and up are pure evil.
Best advice I have is get out. You don't know if the severance will be there. They are desperate to show good numbers.
The only culture that exists at NetApp is one that sees managers betraying their top performers by rewarding them with more work, directors and VPs constantly chasing the next shiny thing at the cost of team sanity and even product health, and individual contributors shucking all work that isn't immediately valuable to stakeholders. The growing commitment to bright but unprofitable ideas with ever dimming focus on quality drove me from the company long ago. If you're in a western office - leave NetApp while you're employed! Much better to find a new job before they make you train your cheaper replacements then lay you off.
Severance keeps you at Netapp? That makes no sense.
I hear this quite often these days and still wonder how there are still people around talking about culture.