Pros
Project control: Teams have better control over tactical decisions. Project daily activities and forms are up to the team's discretion. Teams operate differently but gives them a sense of ownership. Customer focus: Many decisions are guided by customer impact. There is certain zeal to address the most immediately impacting customer issues. Sustaining engineering have impressive people addressing hot customer complains. Sales people go out of their way to close on deals.
Cons
Bad Culture: The company is devolving into what Amazon and Microsoft were several years ago, taking on the ugly corporate aspects as many have mentioned. Dishonesty, discrimination, close-door policies, double standards, corruption are visibly creeping up, as many described as growing pains. Not surprising, since the majority of the manager positions are filled with former managers from those companies. Yes, there are power struggles. The company encourages employees to post positive Glassdoor reviews to attract more applications and maintain a good public face, that is one reason so many positive reviews were submitted from employees just a few months in. The company makes collaboration a selling point, but do not expect anything like that, too good to be true, people here look out for #1. The people are on-par or worse with what you would find in Amazon or Microsoft in their notorious years with exceptions here and there. The culture is close minded, outsider influences are strongly disliked even if you have decades of experience. Work is pretty mundane, the older employees monopolize the interesting tasks while the rest compete for the few marginally interesting ones. Many employees are still drinking the invincibility coo-lay after the company went public, irresponsible practices are still prevalent. One example, the company unbelievably disclosed possible anti-terrorism data during a meeting of thousand of employees as material for a joke. Another example was a neglected security breach in the product suffered by an unnamed major corporation. Do not trust sensitive data with Tableau. Bad Managers: Managers have free reign over local company decisions without liability. They are visibly hiring only former acquaintances, bypassing standards, while those who submit applications are used to minimally comply with fair employment requirements and are summarily declined. Fair employment opportunities are not a norm. Did you think the interviewers were friendly and respectful? The company does want to put a good public face, but think again, our employees and managers mock your mistakes post interviews. Yes, managers do have preferred pets with special treatment, just like other places. The demographics that a manager prefers are pretty obvious, "cultural fit" or "skills" are justifications so subjectively used to avoid meeting standard diversity in the workplace. As others have reported, managers can appear incompetent when addressing problems, but anyone with some management experience, that is a game plan. The most common game plan favored by HR is to let individuals solve problems themselves. Have a complain, have issues with your job? Neglect the employee to force a move or make it forgotten. HR and management are very close and will protect each other. Managers here do not develop people many have mentioned this. Managers hire just a small percentage of minorities to minimally comply with required diversity numbers. The ideal minorities are expected to be timid, not too thoughtful, not be opinionated, and live content with disadvantages. Do not expect to opportunities here if you are part of a minority. Bad Products: The products were conceived when the world was very small. They were not first designed to be secured, flexible, scale, or even localized. All the releases were patches on top of bad designs or rewrites of features. The amount of bugs in the products is huge. There is no comprehensive list of scenarios, vulnerabilities, relationships, nobody really knows. In fact, there were no threat models until recently. The company has reached a plateau, so much time is spent addressing flaws and bugs, feature innovation is stalled. Not surprisingly competitors are gaining stronger foothold in the business every cycle. The stock price fell down sharply when public news hinted this. Yet, we face the growing corporate pains, many employees are still drinking the invincibility coo-lay and manager corruption is creeping up. The company strongly relies on sacrifices of its sales people, it has become a one-sided deal, not sustainable, and people are discontent. Reviews are being tighten to force more productivity. Do no invest on Tableau products for the long term because they will be fast obsolete.
