The next round of layoffs here at NetApp highlight a growing issue: leadership increasingly feels disconnected from reality. Too many decisions seem to come from a C-level bubble rather than from understanding employees and customers. Another concern is the number of VPs/SVPs coming from companies like Microsoft, Oracle, or Pure Storage. External experience is valuable, but NetApp shouldn’t become a copy of everywhere else. The company’s strength was always its own culture and people.
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Was at NTAP from 2013 to 2024 and the acceleration in the change in culture started when Henri came on board. By 2020 NTAP wasn’t recognizable from a culture perspective from when I joined.
There are still some very good friends there and some good people and I wish them well but save everything you can to prepare for your exit.
NetApps problems began 6 or 7 years ago (or more accurately escalated then). The culture people cling to nostalgically is long dead. NetApp will never recover. The disconnect between c-suite/VPs is too entrenched to fix at this point.
Ride NetApp downhill, collect paycheck, shutup