Indifference at all levels - Software Engineer Hitachi Vantara Employee Review

1.0
2 May 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Vacation is unlimited, but recently some teams started to mandate management approvals to get it, previously you would submit the request ahead of time and all set to go. Company matches 6% of your 401K contributions vested immediately.

Cons

The culture of indifference at many levels - most managers do not see you as a person, but rather as a replaceable resource, Most products are legacy ones with a lot of questionable code, a lot of time you will patch issues instead of developing a new code base. Many managers are grown from within and are skilled developers without soft skills to manage people, many old-guard people managers just care about their own growth and will throw you under a bus to step up. Engineering culture is very strange - managers cultivate backstabbing by requesting a regular anonymous feedback on other employees in 1-1's. You will be shuffled between projects on a quarterly basis instead of focusing on a specific area and deep dive into it.

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5.0
14 May 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

good environment to work in IT

Cons

I didn't find any flaws with company

2.0
26 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Decent pay, average benefits, some autonomy to get things done

Cons

The entire leadership group that I was hired under was gone within 18 months and replaced but far worse examples. Micro-managing and then threatening corrective action plans as a means to force out those who they didn't like or earned too much. From a technology perspective, the storage products are average and inline with competition, but with far fewer reps in the field and no real marketing or inside sales to speak of, Hitachi Vantara is largely irrelevant in the Storage industry now.

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