Teradata reviews

3.7

64% would recommend to a friend

(3,531 total reviews)
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Steve McMillan

63% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

Teradata has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 3,531 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Teradata 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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1.0
Oct 3, 2020
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Pros

Was a great company to work for with a great culture that has been killed.

Cons

Product quality has declined considerably and they are struggling to find their way. Very demoralizing and toxic environment. All of the great talent that build the company are gone or leaving.

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Teradata Response
5y
Hi there. First, thank you for your service of 10+ years. To address your comment about product quality, we've formed a new Products organization that drives all ongoing technology innovations while ensuring that Teradata products remain of the highest quality and deliver differentiated value to customers. An open and supportive environment is built as a team. Every employee should feel valued and respected, every day. That’s what our leadership team and Teradata as a whole believes. We’re sorry if your experience hasn’t reflected this. We really do appreciate candid feedback from current employees, so thank you for providing yours.
1.0
Dec 2, 2019
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Pros

1. Good work life balance. 2. Nice software engineers, very approachable.

Cons

Horrible management: For e.g.: ever changing roadmap from the leadership team, few managers have no clue about the product they are managing. Layoff culture

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Teradata Response
6y
We appreciate your feedback. We're continuing our focus on defining priorities now, and appreciate the adaptive nature of the engineers (and all employees) across Teradata. Best of luck in your next endeavor.
3.0
Apr 12, 2019
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Pros

Teradata is a truly dynamic environment full of chaos and complexity. While this comes with a downside, it's also fantastic opportunity for young, hungry professionals to dive in and learn. There aren't a lot of boundaries in our work (i.e. we aren't stuck in a proverbial box or job description), but we are expected to solve world hunger with limited resources. The downside is that it's a sometimes overwhelming environment because we lack the time for anything other than on-the-job, reactive learning and find ourselves executing by "pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps."

Cons

The organization is quite political. Employees often find themselves doing a whole lot of reactive work in response to C-level requests. The C-suite is too concerned with the details, which perturbs many of the extremely bright people that work here. If the leaders led with inspiration and trust (and less politics/ego), this would be a vastly different place. There's a lot of hedging that goes on at the top, where leaders come across as they have it all together and are on track to meet their objectives, when in all actuality their teams are silently suffering beneath high-volume workloads out of fear that bringing up concerns will lead to negative political consequences. The communication is lacking to the fullest degree; it's definitely a situation of management believing the front line people can read their minds and false assumptions that things trickle downhill organically. We make a ton of changes in our business (strategy, naming convention of products and teams) and don't communicate them, and it leaves everyone feeling extremely confused. We spend so much time trying to figure things out that we can't get our work done. Depending on what team you're part of, work life can be awful.

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