Teradata reviews

This place is no more than a money suck by the current round of executives (4th CEO in ~7years) who are riding the downward spiral at more than 20x the income of mid-point salary of employees; it is an old, tired IT firm in steep decline. They only have 700 customers, down from 1200 in 2018. This company once had a $13B market cap; current market cap is $3B, but executives remain, board remains and no strategy to revitalize or transition. They have layoffs three times a year, always just under the number that requires public notification, the severance packages now max out at 3 months. There is no career advancement. The best people have left, many pushed away due to high salaries, relative to company's finances but below industry norms.

- Very high executive turnover (I've had 7 direct supervisors in less than 7 years) and more VPs and Sr VPs than I can even remember at this point. - Teradata is an international company, with offices around the world. That means meetings at 7am 9:30pm in the same day. - Strategy churn: It's healthy and expected in a high-tech market to turn on a dime and change projects and strategies to align with the market. Unfortunately, at Teradata those changes are so frequent and short-lived that it becomes a frustrating level of churn. - Poor communication from the executive level down and from individual contributors back up to management. - I thought we had gotten past the culture where it's not safe to respectfully disagree with executives, but unfortunately we have not. - Teradata trains its employees to not discriminate and then sets targets for hiring women and specific minorities (i.e., reverse discrimation).