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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4.0
Sep 13, 2015

Friendly place to work but going nowhere

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Pros

Friendly environment, nice people, low pressure, not too much stress. The people who work here are really nice.

Cons

The pay is lower compared to industry leaders. The bonus system means you earn less than at other companies for the same job. The turnover is really high and the most talented people leave.

2.0
Jan 29, 2015

Sales

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great products, very smart people. Long tenure.

Cons

It is an administrative role more than sales. Feverish account plans, opportunity plans, call plans, and close plans before you ever speak to a prospect. They focus so much time on creating imaginary deals and supporting collateral for those imaginary deals that it is difficult to make time to see prospects. comp plan is terrible unless you have a major account like AT&T, JPM, COKE, Boeing, Target, etc. Everyone else starves. I calculated the time wasted on administration is about 40%. at times much higher.

1.0
Mar 14, 2014
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Pros

Firstly, your peers in the 'trenches' are really fantastic people. For the most part they are highly intelligent, really generous with their time, and all around wonderful people. Other good reasons to work here: Free coffee Free soda Free snacks Bathrooms Clean office environment Professional Good 401k Good legal plan benefits Employee Stock Purchase Program

Cons

Poor pay and poor bonus (Annual Incentive Plan for non PS, is 7.5%) Poor expectation management from managers, poor at setting goals Get it done or get out attitude Culture of accountability translates to culture of finger pointing Poor business process and almost no implementation of CMMI whatsoever Antiquated ideologies about research and development, good senior management, terrible middle management Antiquated products with bloated features and poor architecture Management has severe tunnel vision, most development managers have little experience actually developing, employees are rated subjectively Fiefdom culture, every senior leader has their own little castle which they run their own way, 'fights' happen, lots of political overhead. Promotions are non existent, yearly raises are consistently 2%, I'm pretty sure that when you account for average inflation, that means you're making less than you did the year before.

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