Thread regarding NetApp layoffs

@fy Given that most if not all tech companies are cutting where is that next opportunity? It should be outside of tech.

The fastest growing industry in US is healthcare. It's also a people and service oriented business, which I can say is rewarding.

@g0
?> The organization provides salary, benefits, perks, and opportunities, but it doesn’t operate on sentiment. <?

Unfortunately, your position is not supported by the research. The sentiment of employees is at the root of what makes companies great.

Good reading here:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/minimum-wage-experiment-worked/687255/

@a1 Let’s be honest terms like loyalty, hard work, and being a good corporate citizen are often generalized and, in situations like this, feel largely symbolic.
At the end of the day, we are here to do a job we signed up for. The relationship is transactional companies hire us to deliver outcomes, and we perform that role. That’s the reality, whether we like it or not.
We chose to work here or atleast i did because, at the time, NetApp offered something better- compensation, technology, work environment, or growth. And similarly, if another company offers a better combination of those factors, I (and most of us) will leave. We give notice and move on. That’s how the system works.
And just as employees don’t expect emotional attachment from the company, companies don’t expect it from employees either. The organization provides salary, benefits, perks, and opportunities, but it doesn’t operate on sentiment.
Company culture is an overused hyped vague concept. It is something fixed or permanent, it shifts constantly based on the people in the organization at a given time. It is one of those corporate cliches that gets talked about but which actually means nothing.
So while moments like this are disappointing, it’s important to see things as they are this is a professional arrangement, not a personal one.
Maybe it’s just that I’ve seen too many RIFs and watched too many colleagues impacted over time, many of these commonly used phrases have started to lose their meaning for me.

@ed Given that most if not all tech companies are cutting where is that next opportunity? It should be outside of tech.

lmao. The point is you can't "tough it out" because toughing it will not guarantee rewards. Better to quiet quit and line up your next opportunity.

@dc It is the same everywhere. Meta, Microsoft, Google, Orcale everyone in tech is cutting. so where are you going to jump? Other than nvidia, openai and other AI companies it is pretty much a tech wreck. No point complaining. We need to tough it through this stretch.

Its always the low life sc-ms bags that do f all and survive the layoffs. Su-king up to their managers, being a yes person etc.

hard work never matters in corporate world. we work hard and anyway get fired. some of the most incompetent people i have met have survived this layoff while some excellent qualified people have been fired. +1 to Op - it's better to hunt for a new job while getting payed than stay here. Next layoff will be in 6 months - might as well use the time to get a job because anyway i could get fired for some random reason.

George's email was so tone deaf.
"Some of the people we let go helped build the company from the ground up, but sc--w them, we need to lower cost somehow"

Yep, some of the hardest working, most customer visible, making a difference people I have ever know were let go, along with passion for the company. Feeling completely deflated after this one because it is obvious that work-ethic + success in influencing revenue + being a good corporate citizen no longer matters. Culture has turned us into nothing but numbers. I'm heartbroken. I was hoping to retire from NetApp one day, but not only do I doubt that is in the cards, I don't know that I want it anymore.

I hope one day someone will do a case study about how to destroy a company culture and NetApp is one of the examples.