Teradata Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Teradata full-time for more than a year

Pros – Always enough work to keep the consultants staffed. The benefits are basic, nothing to get excited about. The one standout is the floating holidays...I like this option where I get to choose when to take 6 holidays in addition to the 6 major holidays we already get.

Cons – Opportunity to advance comes in spurts...if you miss an opportunity, you may not get another one.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep driving sales...I enjoy bonuses

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Teradata full-time for less than a year

Pros – Industry leading technology. Seasoned, passionate employees. Great go-to-market strategy.

Cons – Unbelievably broken internal processes. Lousy raises ("Great work. Got you the biggest raise allowed. Enjoy the 2% increase").

Advice to Senior Management – FIX the internal processes. Employees are wasting time fighting them.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Teradata full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – * Good benefits
* Interesting technology
* Opportunity for growth

Cons – * Old boys club at the top
* Culture of "cover my butt" at the top
* Exposing challenges may loose your job

Advice to Senior Management – Teradata is a great company; however, there are a few high-level people that stay where they are by passing the buck to others. This used to be a fun place to work but the guy in the trenches seems to be getting the short end of the stick these days.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Teradata full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – 401K, dental, eye glasses, and health coverage is pretty decent.

Cons – You only receive feedback if you mess something up or someone complains. There is no positive reinforcement. Co-workers are often lazy.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Teradata full-time

Pros – My co-workers are a great group of people. There's interesting software and hardware to work with. Work-life balance is good. The company is doing very well, which increases the sense of job security. There's a lot of stability.

Cons – Pay is mediocre. It's hard to advance. Promotions are hard to come by. The company is not engineering-centric, so for an engineer there's less sense of being the most important part of the company.

Advice to Senior Management – Cultivate your employees better.

– I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Teradata full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Very smart co-workers (for the most part), opportunities to touch cutting edge technologies, currently expanding at an incredible rate. Teradata has enough areas that you could spend quite a bit of time here dabbling in Engineering, Program Management, Management, etc. and probably not get too bored.

Cons – Development cycles are increasing at a vicious rate. There are a lot of strong headed politics. If you enjoy being a software engineer you will be OK. Beyond that, there are plenty of strong opinions and long histories here that are difficult to break through. If you are accepted, you will find things are pretty smooth.

Advice to Senior Management – It's 2012. Wake up. This isn't AT&T or NCR. This is a growing company with growing discontent among your best employees. It's time to revisit compensation - and for the love of God, throw in a few more paid holidays for US employees.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Teradata

Pros – The company is flexible and profitable.

Cons – No growth opportunities
No training opportunities
Some Managers like to pick your career path for you.

Advice to Senior Management – Allow people to choose there own career paths and move within the company versus forcing people into positions because they are good at something the company needs and they are not happy with the position.

Current Employee – been working at Teradata

Pros – Everyone works remotely, so the work is incredibly flexible! You work what ever hours you need, and this enables total flexibility for personal life management. It's incredible how flexible the environment is.

People are generally nice-- and have very long tenures. People are very loyal to the company.

Cons – Work is boring, people are committed to mediocre quality. Lots of time spent doing work that yields little or no benefit. I feel like I spend a lot of time doing busy work that means very little. Organization is also 100% sales driven, which limits its ability to be strategic or long range.

Advice to Senior Management – Enable strategic, industry specific approaches to market, and limit tactical approaches to going-to-market.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Teradata

Pros – Lots of talented and very smart people

Cons – Dispite mgt talk of being a people centered company, hasty decisions are made and even though sales cycles are known to be long, it appears management forgets this. Management communication is minimal.

Advice to Senior Management – no

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Teradata

Pros – Teradata has a great product line, very intelligent workers, and tremendous focus on what it wants to do. Management is competent and focused.

Cons – Because of its roots with NCR the company is very conservative and risk averse. There are many managers who are afraid to make mistakes.

Advice to Senior Management – The company would benefit from a more entrepreneurial approach to business. There is too much structure and risk aversion that prevents it from capitalizing on real opportunities.