Stay away, slowly failing - Software Engineer Hitachi Vantara Employee Review

1.0
21 Sept 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The individual contributors for Hitachi Vantara are great, but overall junior. Most individual contributors are friendly and willing to learn and share knowledge.

Cons

* Serious case of "Not Invented Here" syndrome. This occurs because engineering hours seem to be treated as free. So instead of spending $100 on software which meets our use cases, we would spend 50 hours of engineering time to create a limited version of the same tool. * The pay is significantly below average (especially true for people just out of school). There have been a number of cases where the salary for a position has fallen under the "min" section in Glassdoor. * Marketing buzzwords driving engineering decisions. * The management team will blatantly lie about how bad things are. Everything is always great despite layoffs, hiring freezes, salary freezes, etc. Pointing out reality (politely) is a great way to get yourself in the dog house. * Low level management doesn't know what it going on day to day. A lot of this stems from having a full layer of first time managers (who do not receive training). They are mostly good people who are trying hard, but are set up for failure.

avatar
Hitachi Vantara Response
8y
Thank you for recognizing our outstanding individual contributors and our investment in rising-star engineering talent. As you know, Hitachi Vantara is currently experiencing tremendous growth and our teams are rapidly scaling across a number of portfolios - IoT, Analytics, Content, Converged, and Data Protection. This is creating a lot of leadership opportunities at Hitachi Vantara. We are working hard to promote from within and to provide our new leaders with proper training and coaching. Regarding how we compose our solutions, Hitachi Vantara uses a tremendous amount of open source software in our offerings - including open source operating systems, databases, messaging queues, analytics, & visualization. We also have very strong relationships with tier one partners that provide ERP systems, enterprise databases, and virtualization solutions. We then work to deliver high-value solutions that embrace and extend these open source and commercial offerings. Hitachi Vantara is positioned to ride some of the biggest technology waves in the history of the high-tech space - IoT, AI, robotics. We are hiring hundreds of engineers and working to generously reward our employees for their strong contributions. We are also working to ensure that every engineer, every team, every product and every portfolio is positioned for sustained growth. And, as with every successful high-tech company we also have some products that are reaching full maturity. We are working to efficiently transition engineers from these fully mature offerings to our emerging high-growth areas. We really appreciate this feedback, and we encourage you to socialize these concerns at one-on-one's, team stand-ups, and round table discussions. We would love to work with you and your teammates to resolve these challenges.

Explore other reviews about Hitachi Vantara

5.0
16 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good Technologies, great people, awesome experience

Cons

Limited in my scope of addressable accounts to sell into

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.

1
See reviews by: Helpful|Rating|Date|All