Teradata Reviews

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Promotion isn’t easy to come by.

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The identified drawbacks primarily revolve around compensation and the motivation of engineers within the company: - The process for receiving raises and promotions appears to be slower compared to industry standards, causing frustration among employees. - The current compensation is on the lower side when benchmarked against competitors, potentially impacting employee satisfaction and retention. - Overtime pay is not granted unless upper management approves, which may affect employees' morale who contribute additional hours to meet project demands. - The monthly release cycles, while essential for project timelines, can contribute to a hectic work environment, particularly when managing dependencies with external teams. We're still not ready for this type of release cycle for some of our offerings.

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- Very high executive turnover (I've had 7 direct supervisors in less than 7 years) and more VPs and Sr VPs than I can even remember at this point. - Teradata is an international company, with offices around the world. That means meetings at 7am 9:30pm in the same day. - Strategy churn: It's healthy and expected in a high-tech market to turn on a dime and change projects and strategies to align with the market. Unfortunately, at Teradata those changes are so frequent and short-lived that it becomes a frustrating level of churn. - Poor communication from the executive level down and from individual contributors back up to management. - I thought we had gotten past the culture where it's not safe to respectfully disagree with executives, but unfortunately we have not. - Teradata trains its employees to not discriminate and then sets targets for hiring women and specific minorities (i.e., reverse discrimation).

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No specific direction. Entire departments are created from scratch then laid-off a year later. "Sorority-like" corporate culture - advancement is not based on skills, but rather who 'likes' you. Non-technical side of the company runs things and does not understand the core technology. Company seems to be chasing it's tail. CEO has allowed barely/unqualified/underqualified VP's run the company, no real leadership (great leadership previous CEO)

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Lack of leadership in the competitive cloud market, Management is not being held accountable for a tough market. On-boarding when I first started was atrocious at best. Still felt that there was so much I wasn't taught when I left.

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Their "commitment" to people and DEI is simply lip service. The HR people are just mouthpieces of management and couldn't care less about employees. They also aren't knowledgeable, responsive nor have good interpersonal skills. Representation of diverse groups is abysmal beyond the C Suite

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Leadership is untrustworthy and you never know when you might be laid off. Working in fear of being laid off is not motiviating.

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lousy leadership. constant layoffs. impossible comp plans. focused on being WOKE, not on the customer.

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Current product and services offerings are poor. Current senior leadership team is more interested in doing things to enhance the stock price in the short term than in building out the business itself. Morale amongst front line personnel is extremely poor.

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Do not buy the slogan "most ethical company and care about our employees". Managers manipulate the internal performance rating including the changing the standardized KPI measures. many of the internal technical trainings including "Airlifts" are more and more about who knows whom and present within these sessions. There are stiff competitions internally between different teams. Even if company has moved from hardware business, current GTM team functions like hardware/IT sales.