Just curious how many people are asking hard questions which don't get answered. I know I keep posting things, but since they are difficult, they aren't answered even if no other questions are out there and there is time to answer them.
We all know that NetApp gatekeeps questions, I'm just wondering how much.
Similarly with Survey's everything is always in the 70's 80's but looking through the comments shows a vastly different picture.
@23j Thanks, thats super enlightening and along what I had expected. I wasn't aware of the ability to drill down too much into details because teams smaller than 5 roll up to the next higher level. There has been a very noticable shift in how the questions are phrased and it's becoming more and more obvious that they are asked in a fashion to elicit a positive response and that they never hit on a substantive topic which allows easy positive numbers... this more than anything convinced me leadership is not looking for real feedback or want to learn from the employee experience.
As someone who worked with the team on surveys and questions years ago.
The number of questions that get submitted is crazy high. It's all theater. The questions are curated for ones that sound hard but have a good sound bite answer.
The surveys are anonymous in that your name/id isn't associated. That being said we can drill down into the responses in a way that makes it fairly obvious who said what. If a manager had 5 submissions we could drill down into it. Most people's text responses give them away. We didn't know who submitted and who didn't we did get a read out at the manager level. The questions are all psychologically constructed to get the target results we want. It's scary how good the consultants can skew results by how the questions are asked. So many people just straight select the same ranking for everything. You're almost guaranteed a 50% even if the building is on fire. The way we examine the results is very different then how they are presented. A huge goal of the surveys is to make it seem like it's a small group of vocal grumpies spinning people up and not a real problem. I
Post the questions you asked anonymously in the all hands here on the layoff threads. It's all anonymous, sí? It must be safe to post them here and it definitely won't blow back on you as an employee at all.
Part of their show to show they care but they don't. just play along, i agreed, dont do any survey....just like lottery, do you think you will win?
@gq The opposite is true. If you fill out the surveys, it's more likely they can use that against you somehow. It will only gift the old leadership at this company further ammunition.
The global all hands was such a circus. They do not care about individual contributor quality of life or modern work benefits. These ghouls at the top will just continue to RIF and cash in their stocks until it's time to leave. The entire executive team are just ghouls sustaining themselves off of the worker bees honey.
@fc don't think anyone is underthe illusion that anyone is listening, but I would be careful with not filling out surveys because that could negative impact you. Just fill it in and be done with it.
i am with netapp for 20 years until they let me go 3 weeks ago. Don't spend your time to fill in the form or any Thrive. wasting time. just part of the show....to make you feel better than they are listening. They won't listen or take action. Pretty sure they will just throw all of the input away. Be smart, don't do any Thrive survey, any survey at all. we did voice out how to improve the process...nothing change. dont waste your time.
There's a lot of theater around employee engagement designed to make it seem like your opinions matter. All these surveys and AMAs are kind of meaningless if the execs are only going to focus on their narrative.
You won’t get an accurate gauge of it.
I’ve been asking the same hard questions 4 years now to the product group. No answers.
@OP You make a good point but let's both be happy to have a role at NetApp. This last RIF was hard to understand.