Tableau Software Employee Reviews about "great product"

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Growth brings challenges and the company will have to work hard to avoid becoming like the big behemoths that it is currently disrupting.

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Can’t think of any in my role

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Tableau is the poster child for what happens when nobody ever tells the developers "no". We have like five ticketing systems, five project management systems, four collaboration tools... Half the time, it is impossible to figure out where you even need to go to get something done. And all of that confusion has been compounded by getting acquired by Salesforce. Tableau has more technical debt than I've ever seen in 26+ years in the industry. I've been here almost a year and have done virtually no engineering work. Just produced a long list of documentation laying out the strategy to fix the technical debt in my purview and I'm not a day closer to getting anything done.

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Building internal career. Hard to see strong leadership in middle managements. Healthcare benefit can be better... But not much things to say.

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The services organisation in EMEA does not take the opportunity to provide role based training and development to new team members. If you cannot already fully fulfil on the job you will quickly be shown the door. It was evident that Regional Delivery Manages are not adding any value. Rather than doing this they could be seen creating or seeking problems to justify their existence especially with the pending Salesforce merger. Training for the Tableau Product is great but role based training is absent. This is evident across all levels of management. The current role based training that exists is reading an on boarding guide. The organisation does not have time to provide mentoring as discussed in these documents.

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Sales comp plans are mediocre. The land-and-expand sales model skews chances of success toward reps with more mature customers with a high install base. Simple products and pricing is nice, but there's limited flexibility to get creative with deals.

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Tableau does not pay the highest salary. Unless you're a rock $tar $oftware engineer, then you can write your own golden ticket.

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There is really only one product to work on and while the scope of that product is always increasing it still is only a single product. We don't have huge AI or ML work, distributed systems work and some other areas that are quickly becoming important in the technology field. If you are okay with the limited scope and available projects, then this isn't really a con. Things have gone down hill considerably in the last 9 months or so. At least, that is how I feel. We have grown a ton and hired a huge number of senior engineers from outside the company. Instead of the career growth I was told about when I accepted the position, I am working on less interesting projects while senior engineers, who were just hired, are getting more interesting work. I assume this is because it is probably cheaper to hire from outside the company than to promote internally. I have spoken to my management team about opportunities and they seem receptive. Although, nothing seems to change. Then there is the complete lack of a working stable build system. The build system is a house of cards. It doesn't seem that much thought was put in to how to scale the build system with the number of engineers. It is now atrocious with a full build taking several hours. It isn't unusual to spend at least 30% (sometimes much more) of your day waiting for builds or trying to get flaky tests to pass. Good luck trying to productive. Pay, as others have mentioned is pretty sub-par. If you want to work here, get a competing offer, otherwise it likely won't be competitive with other major companies. In fact, despite better performance reviews this year than last, raises and equity refreshes were less. Also, not the companies fault but the stock is completely unreliable.

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- Compensation—you will not be paid well. - They're filling the middle with people managers that are unwilling and unable to execute even the most cursory tasks. - The extremely relaxed management style enables under-performers to skate by, which places an unnecessary and unfair burden on their top-performing peers.

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-Separate teams/departments: Sometimes teams have different priorities and everyone needs to be better at working together, however this is getting better -Parking: Employee parking is on a waitlist basis and i'm too cheap to pay for a lot but the company pays you a pretty substantial commuter subsidy! -Not enough time/incentive to learn the product: Although they give you the resources to do so, it is very difficult to find the time to learn the product as much as i'd like to -As the old CMO used to say, "Work is work, it's not called fun. But these people and this place make this the least sh*tty place to work at!"