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Tableau Software

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3.8

70% would recommend to a friend

(1,146 total reviews)
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Mark Nelson

70% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

Tableau Software has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 1,146 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Tableau Software employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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3.0
Jul 28, 2021

Falling apart

Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits Tableau the product is great and easy to sell The people are awesome

Cons

Culture has crumbled in a remote world and with the Salesforce takeover. Feels like management is doing the bare minimum at all times for their team and only focused on improving their own career paths. No communication from leadership on the path to a promotion and lots of new rules because of Salesforce. Yet be prepared at the end of each year to be bounced to a new team or territory with zero say and then told you have to stay there for a minimum of 6 months. Sales enablement is a joke. Management spends zero time mentoring, training or even reviewing deals with their team. Pay is way below market. Nearly everyone is unhappy and looking to leave this sinking ship. Working with Salesforce Core AEs is a nightmare. Most are rude and condescending and actually are pushing Tableau OUT of deals but management is scared of SF leadership and so don't say anything.

3.0
Mar 4, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Great foot in the door at the company. Definitely entry level and you are compensated such - my understanding is the pay for this role is below avg for similar roles in Tech. Most of the team is great, hard working folks. I've made life long friends and colleagues to keep in touch with. Great product too. A lot to learn and various pathways you can take for other roles within the company. Not much, if anything has changed since the Salesforce acquisition. Good benefits, ESPP, 401k. Pre covid - typical tech perks like big kitchen, lots of snacks, beer fridays, ping pong, etc.

Cons

The moral on the team has probably never been lower. Inept leadership with no direction other than do more, more, more. No recognition other than a small shout out during team meetings. Pay leaves a lot left to be desired considering how stressed you will be about making your numbers. People cut lunch times, breaks to make this happen. Leadership will preach "culture" but when it comes down to it you are nothing but however many cases you close. They like to throw around a ton of buzz words ie "freakishly friendly" which is confusing considering there is no metric at all for customer satisfaction. If you're a top closer, great keep going. If not, you'll probably be put on a PIP. Promotion path is non existent. People get promoted to a SR title with no explanation or path. When asked for reasons surrounding this, all the leaders will give you all different answers. Clearly promos are nothing but an eye ball test with the final say being the Director and how well you are liked. Team members are intimidated by leadership; if you have a backbone or disagree with something in a professional sense, there's a good chance you'll get blacklisted. Even once promoted, the team members continue in their day to day duties while not taking on SR level cases/duties. Even if you've taken on extra projects as a non senior member and excelled, it's more or less disregarded entirely when promotion time comes. Some people will/have got huge raises, while other top performers will only get inflation raises. When confronted, leadership gets defensive and will entirely dismiss you with no numbers to present the logic. Requesting days off is a nightmare with no clear process. You won't be able to take even one day off during "end of month" even though others will call out sick or somehow have already been approved PTO, further compounding frustration across the team. If you're looking to get on this team, put in your 6 months to a year time and start applying to other roles internally ASAP.

2.0
Jul 16, 2017

I like Tableau, not my department

Anonymous employee
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Pros

I believe in what the product is. Tableau is a beautiful product and I am constantly amazed at what people come up with. I work with very intelligent people. I have a solid work/life balance. Benefits are top notch. RSUs exist, but anemia has set in. believe we are meant to do great things.

Cons

My specific department is bad. underpaid and underappreciated. The only time we have any power is if we have an offer to leave. Otherwise it doesn't matter. You wonder why attrition is so bad when the #1 complaint is compensation? Imagine that. Growth of the company means that the leadership hierarchy gets more and more flat every day. With this growth, I've found that our cultural values have decreased

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