Avantages
I've worked at the Cranberry Twp, PA office for a while, and I have no complaints about the caliber of engineers (at least in the core software development teams) and all my managers have been technically competent, reasonable, and accommodating. Although it's suffering a brain-drain, there are still a lot of very smart, very cool people here, and I'm legitimately proud to work with them.
Inconvénients
The executive leadership is wildly, demonstratively incompetent. NetApp is an increasingly icky place to work with regular annual layoffs, cratering stock price, and a near-freeze on raises and promotions. (Mind you, NetApp is still extremely profitable - all the layoffs and austerity are to marginally improve the quarterly report numbers in the hope that shareholders won't axe the executive team.) As long as I've worked here, I've listened to a parade of executives bloviating buzzwords and execuspeak in quarterly all-hands meetings. And I just assumed that since they make the big bucks, they probably know what they're doing, and my impression that they’re all incompetent is based in my own business-incompetence. But in six years, I’ve never once seen one of their dumb ideas proved not-dumb. I don’t know how/if the company will ever be successful again. (To be fair, we did just fire the old CEO, and have George Kurian in the interim. I always thought Kurian was one of the good ones - though if he authorized the VED rollout, that might speak against his technical competence.)