If you were in charge, what changes would you make to the business or products to make greatest impact on AYX growth targets?
Another content writer resigned.
It’s concerning to see two departures within just 30 days. It raises questions about the environment under the current content and brand leadership—it must be quite the place to work. On another note, are we leaning on GPT-4o as our new content... — read more
Legitimate question
I know this is a bit of a hypothetical but In the grand scheme of things, is Alteryx better or worse off as a result of hiring SV (and his ilk) in early 2021? What could the company have looked like had we hired ANYONE else in that role?
The real change - when does that happen?
Obviously this company has been through a TON in the last 12-24 months, however, one of the main issues that caused it to fail, absolute and complete failure in product and engineering, has still not been addressed by the new investors. SV and his... — read more
Why is a Demand Generation/Digital job role being advertised? Field Marketing, IT?
The careers page has 91 job postings. What the heck is going on.
Who's running the show at Alteryx?
No CEO for almost a full year now, who exactly is calling the shots? Is it just the board of the PE firm?
Are we getting a new CMO?
Messaging seems to be drifting away with lack of leadership and vision. We are selling tools and widgets instead of real business value and a vision. Is a new CMO joining the team once we get a new CEO in seat? Without this we will descend further... — read more
Revenue Operations Leader accelerated the demise of Alteryx
She accelerated the demise of Alteryx. She had access to CRO, did everything in the back office and sc--wed the entire company. No one wants to work for her. Does not understand GTM , arrogant leader. It is a revolving door in her organization. You... — read more
Currently in an interview loop for the alliance team
Any Thoughts on that team and/or their leadership?
I like to actually work when I’m at work
I’m prevented from actual work by mgmt. If I were a boss, I would never let these people manage even a small chicken coop. They have no clue about the skills and potential of people in teams, and work distribution is apparently something akin to... — read more
Recruiting in UK and States filling roles let go only 5 weeks ago
Nothing seems to make any sense anymore. Alteryx are advertising jobs everywhere on LinkedIn. They got rid of the entire branding team and handed it to somebody who hasn't even remotely touched brand-related work before in her entire career. So, will... — read more
Recruiting in London filling roles let go only 5 weeks ago!
I see today on LinkedIn that the Sales Org is recruiting new account executives for the UK Strat team. This is the team who only 5 weeks ago let some excellent account execs go ( some of which went to Pres club this year). How can this even be... — read more
It's not a good environment for professional development. Leave if you can.
Alteryx intentionally hampers your professional progress, as the outdated processes and mismanagement are designed to hold you back. Those handling sales lack the necessary knowledge about modern prospecting methods. Executives prioritize laziness... — read more
Northern CA Employee Warn
For those who were laid off in northern CA (remote employees), what was your severance package like? Did you get 2 months benefit/salary covered under WARN?
severance paid out yet?
Has anyone who found out on 5/29 that Friday 6/1 would be their last day received their severance pay yet?
Oh hey, Paula is leaving!
And then there was one (Suresh)
2 other layoffs to happen in the coming months
Depending on the financial results, it's safe to say that there will be 2 other layoffs in the coming months. PE wants to squeeze what they can from Ayx.
Anyone else on Paternal Leave get laid-off?
Curious if anyone else got laid-off while on paternal leave and has gotten any info on if we are still getting paid or not for at least the 12 week period through the insurance company that handles our leave payouts. I can't get a straight answer... — read more
Retention bonus until postion moved to offshore
Do we know what percentage of people get a retention bonus..as far I came to know, this is being offered to only those people whose positions will be terminated in Dec and they are being kept just for Handover to offshore
Serverence
Is anyone in the US and outside of the US willing to share how the severance package looks?
Still here
What are thoughts on the employees that did not get laid off? Will there be a second lay off in October? Has anyone heard anything?
How the chosen was chosen
Does anyone have any data or info around how leadership hand picks who to lay off? Who was involved? If a lot of people leaders didn’t know who was going to be gone from their teams until Wednesday morning, who was at the table doing the selection? — read more
Cali severance
This is a cya move by PE. See the post someone else made >>> Layoffs and questions. Max settlement is 2 months for each employee who wasn't given proper notice under WARN. This was done to save PE from lawsuits. A big middle finger to everyone else... — read more
Severance packages
I have seen a couple of posts saying that severance packages for yesterday’s layoffs are poor compared to those from last year’s layoffs. Can anyone share data points? My understanding is that it’s on par with last year’s severance (where paid... — read more
Most deserving of blame?
Mark no-doubt deserves the most blame for the company's disastrous situation. That said, he bet it all on Paula and Suresh and they failed miserably Other than Mark, Who do you think is most responsible for Alteryx's failure?
Alteryx Layoffs - May 2024
Need a sumary? Let's leave this list for posterity. Severance this time is a joke compared to the last layoff. Leadership team remains untouched, enjoying their golden parachutes. Offshore contractors and third-party support dragged the... — read more
150 Laid Off in Product Engineering
16% of PE gone, ~150 people. A clueless leader, bunch of yes men, greed and zero respect for values that a decent human has. It's distgusting.
The layoff is expected
The layoff is expected. Alteryx has been lost in the direction and lost in the competition, too. The race started to lose when building Analytics Hub on-prem but the trend was already moving to the cloud. Then a new CPO was hired to accelerate... — read more
Alteryx mass layoffs
So it has happened. Ruthless here in the UK. Loads gone from all levels.
Can you avoid being laid off if you don't check the layoff mass email message coming from H.R.?
Let's say someone took the entire last week of May off and didn't check their email until the second week of June, are they still considered employed? Do people have to be served? How does this work?
Unfiltered Truth: Who Really Drives Our Company Forward in the Face of PE Layoffs
Alright folks, let's get real here. The PE's gonna drop the hammer and lay off a few hundred folks sooner or later. To my hardworking colleagues, if someone's gotta go, it should be some of those senior managers and directors who just whip up pretty... — read more
Textbook C-level Speak about Layoffs
Our C-leaders have been getting their script from ChatGPT.... ChatGPT 3.5 Prompt: You're a c level leader of a global company that just got acquired. The new private equity owners want to start large layoffs to balance the sheets, what should your... — read more
Re: Layoffs + trying to answer common questions
Seeing a lot of questions on hear regarding the potential layoffs and wanted to try answering a few of them. (Also, I'm not a lawyer and nothing in this post is legal advice.) • How can Alteryx lay off 30-50% without a WARN notice? WARN only... — read more
P!stol Pearce Resignation Timing
Pearce’s departure timing was done so as to personally avoid accountability and having to be face to face with the multitudes of marketing people that he personally approved and took recommendations from his VPs to make starting later this month... — read more
As disingenuous as it gets
As the rumors fly here and elsewhere, while the specifics may be incorrect or “off”, it’s exceedingly clear that the basics are true and correct. And the facts are undeniably true that our new owners has been fully detached and AWOL in terms of... — read more