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Tableau Software reviews

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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1K reviews
2.0
Apr 26, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great product, throws fun parties, kitchen full of food and drinks, good place to get your foot in the door in high tech or if you're switching industries, but must be willing you make significantly below industry average pay. Good benefits and stock once it vests.

Cons

Upper exec leadership needs to recognize that just because some employees have been there for a while, it doesn't mean they are experienced enough to run large teams or an important part of the business. They systems are so convoluted that it makes doing your job challenging. To scale to the growth the company will continue to have challenges, unless there is an experienced CTO in place or someone with previous experience in building out scalable systems. A lot of employee turnover and processes can change depending on how leadership in the dept feels that day, which shows the lack of experienced management. I've never seen anything like the work environment here. If you're an experienced professional, don't expect to come in and be valued for your experience. Not a good work/life balance, in operations in particular.

2.0
Sep 24, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Except for the parties and occasional free food that Tableau organizes for all the company, the group in Corp IT tends to not have as much budget or management to compare to other groups in the org. The overall culture at Tableau is great and you find awesome people to work with in other groups, however Corp IT appears to have fallen through the cracks and do not posses the same level of quality people

Cons

Lack of strong management, disgruntled, over worked team that will argue with you at every statement or opinion you make. This is found mainly in the Corp IT group (includes network engineering, server admins) - Helpdesk team is the exception as they are very helpful and have good personalities. *Encounter a lot of Type A personalities *Very week leadership willing to drive issues or communicate issues with upper management Unless your benefit package (including base and bonus) exceeds by a large margin your current salary, I would think twice before joining this team.

1.0
Apr 9, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The technical support staff are friendly, knowledgeable, and willing to help most of the time.

Cons

1. Incredible disconnect between management and workers. Technicians are burned out, have no PTO left, and are asked to constantly do more with less 2. Constantly moving the goalposts. It doesn't matter how good you're doing, they perpetually understaff and over burden technicians, then gaslight you into doing more 3. Retaliation is commonplace. Frequently technicians are punished for speaking out or have their jobs threatened for trying to make things better. 4. Fragmented staff. Managers have one expectation, account executives have another, technical account managers have another, support staff told another. 5. Pay discrepancies all over. They under pay newer technicians by up to 40%/25k for the exact same job by promoting people to a title they didn't apply for and that didn't exist, then won't tell them directly. Have to figure it out for yourself. 6. No clear path for growth. Training is atrocious. 7. They laid off all of the QA staff in the middle of the pandemic and now use customers as QA for important functions, while relying on technical support to cover for the gross amount of issues they continuously push 8. Lack of accountability from senior management. They refuse to staff properly, they hide key information from clients during security events, and refuse to take any real action to make things better, if they even listen to you 9. They're currently in the process of outsourcing support to Hyderabad so they can underpay technicians even more. 10. Lost over 40 people in a year, and are not hiring/training leads so the group knowledge is getting thin 11. No diversity. I would guess about 90%+ of the technical support team are straight white cisgender men. I can keep going. Stay away from the technical support department.

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