Teradata Software Developer reviews

long working hours, work life balance

- The Board of Directors are driving the company into the ground due to lack of vision as evident by an unqualified VP becoming a CEO and then fired due to poor execution in under a year. - The entire Executive Leadership Team and the Board lack the vision and the execution needed. - Product Management is incompetent causing missed deadlines, project failures, and low-quality software shipped to customers. - Engineering teams are not given opportunities to make high-level technical decisions. - Architecture team doesn't have any power to affect change. - Project failures and missed deadlines are often blamed on Engineering rather than on leadership's mismanagement. - Engineering & InfoSec cultures are largely stuck in the 90s. Most things require tickets. Cloud environments are too restricted. Barrier to innovation is extremely high. - Most long-time engineers (ones who have been with the company for 20+ years) refuse to accept/adapt to the evolving industry and double-down on decisions made 10-20 years ago that have introduced massive tech debt and inability to compete against modern solutions. - Work/Life balance is almost non-existent due continuous tight deadlines, pressures, and requirement for engineering to be on-call to support the Global Support Organization. - The organization structure is odd, to say the least. The Global Support Organization (GSO) is a completely different entity than R&D Engineering with conflicting priorities & financial incentives. GSO benefits from complex software deployments & hardware installations where they make their money, which means any attempts by Engineering to simplify/improve the process is often met with resistance. - Revenue has been declining Year-over-Year. No new customers have signed on or have been onboarded in over a year. Existing customers are actively moving to competitors' more modern solutions or leveraging their cloud provider's offerings. CEO & CFO have re-used excuses like "strong dollar", "exchange rate fluctuations", and "timing" as excuses for poor quarterly performances. - Morale is low. - Frequent lay-offs with the next one being set for late 2019/early 2020, rumored to be approx. 15% of San Diego workforce, 18% of Santa Clara, and the entire El Segundo site.