Teradata Reviews

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

Pros – Big Data Market is exploding. Teradata is in the sweet spot with a lot of Fortune customers adopting it fast.

Cons – Somewhat structured environment. It's not bad, but it's no startup if that's your expectations.

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 more than 7 years

Pros – Excellent pay and benefits. They leave you to do the job

Cons – 100% travel is a major problem

Advice to Senior Management – Better allocation of resources in terms of geography

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Knowledgeable developers and mangers.
Good salaries.
Flexible work schedule.
Opportunities for growth.

Cons – Crazy deadlines.
Lack of trust from senior management.

Advice to Senior Management – Sr. Management of raleigh office - trust your employees.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Teradata full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Technically challenging, encouraged to use current open source technologies, room for growth for promotion and project leadership. Agile development, continuous integration and test. Company promotes work/life balance, flexible hours. Great benefits.

Cons – Development processes and tracking still conform to waterfall software development model, making it difficult to mesh with agile development. But, mostly it's working.

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 more than 3 years

Pros – Excellent products. Deep commitment to education and ongoing education before product release. Strong engineering. Strategic investing new products - Aprimo and Aster.

Cons – Investing in marketing and understanding key market segments. Commit to key market segments with financing, headcount and calcuated risk.

Advice to Senior Management – Take addtional calucated risks in new competitive growth areas

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 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

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

Pros – 1) innovative technology
2) market leader

Cons – limited stock option benefit for individual contributors

Advice to Senior Management – review benefit structure

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

Current Employee – been working at Teradata as an intern for less than a year

Pros – You learn a lot and you get to work with really smart people.

Cons – Nothing as such , it gets really hectic when product delivery is on head

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

Pros – Good training is provided. My co-workers are a great and smart group of people. The company is doing very well. Lots of new technologies to work on.

Cons – Benefits slightly lower compared to comparable jobs