FQ is now at Snowflake. That tells you all you need to know. He was the smartest and most passionate cloud evangelist at TDC, but got tired of being ignored by HA for three years. She dismissed all his product concerns and blamed sales and marketing. Not sure how SM does not see how inept and political she is? That makes you question his leadership ability. If you can't beat em, join em! The TDC ship is sinking fast and all the smart people have already left.
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Do just a couple of customer meetings every Friday when we are taking time off
to publish pictures of our summer holidays at the BBQ and in a few months time, there won’t be any customers left.
If we aren’t posting BBQ shots, then it’s a lame attempt to justify the seven times cheaper push - what’s that doing for this company’s image other than trashing it ?
We are smarter and better than that…wise up people.
Doesn’t take much effort to look like a professional business with serious ambitions but it seems we can’t even manage the basics anymore.
Even with his bad wall paper he is still convincing Teradata customers to move to Snowflake. It's not that hard. He tells them to ask Teradata if they can scale seamlessly without a restart in a non-disruptive way. Ask Teradata what happens to in-flight queries when they scale up or down? Ask "cloud-first" Teradata when they will actually separate compute and storage like Snowflake did 8 years ago. Then he tells them "Vantage" is just the same old Teradata database bolted onto AWS and Azure and they are ready to start a Snowflake POC.
This post just proves TDC is in denial. FQ was one of the most requested cloud architects by sales for strategic customer presentations, and just got a big promotion before he jumped ship to SF. He was one of the few who would stand up to HA and call out the significant product issues while she back-stabbled all the sales leaders. Now you are saying he was no good. LOL You are probably the same people pretending Snowflake is not going to work. Just keep pretending everything is going good.....but be aware that those who keep TDC on their resume while the ship sinks will end up with legacy resumes and no modern company will want to hire you.
Most people think that Teradata is stuck in the 70s and they would be right.
Nothing to do with wallpaper or fuzzy backgrounds, it’s the strategy and fuzzy thinking that’s got Starsky and Hutch worried….
Haha the poster referring to his bedroom. I know right! At least I wasn't the only one thinking maybe he could have done away with the 70's wallpaper. At least he could have learnt how to blur the background as frankly it was very embarrassing and no one had the heart to tell him or even throw a few quid his way for a renovation.
It’s so much better now that all these people who spoke up, challenged stupid decisions and provided practical solutions have left.
They were just stopping us from growing and making progress.
Now we can focus on managing less customers and delivering inner joins to those that really need them to drive their business forward into 1995 and beyond.
Mostly agree with everyone here. FQ thought was he was the best thing since Sliced bread but he was just another run of the mill person who never really added much value. He had a high opinion of himself which will always be his downfall. He obviously had failed a lot in his life and is now trying to make up for it hence why he would talk himself up because he felt as though his weaknesses would always come to the fo-e. He is not very good at much really.
Investigation? Can you elaborate?
He wasn't going to last much longer anyway due to the investigation into him a few weeks ago. Suspect he knew what was coming and jumped ship before he got fired.
@jeuc+1gkFBc2k please check @ffbw+1gkFBc2k insight: the parent's basement thing is US practice, not a Pakistani one.
Unless his parents migrated to the US a few decades ago; then it would all add up.
Seems on a whole most are happy to see the back of him. Either they worked with him first hand and saw how bad he was or saw his continual cry baby posts on yammer. Did anyone ever have to put up with a video conference with him? He had the 70's wallpaper with a single bed in the background like he was still living at his mom's basement
Sounds like everyone’s a winner then but mostly the guy that got as far better gig and the customers that will inevitably follow
Good riddance to FQ. He had tickets on himself. Over stated his knowledge on everything, was terrible presenting to customers and not an easy person to deal with. Seemed to be all over the shop. There are at least 5 colleagues I know who loved seeing him go.
@goxz+1gkFBc2k MLE is a great example of modernization for the sake of having Kubertenes in the resume with no solid technical reason behind it (the cluster was fixed-sized and fully utilized!) and a lot of added technical complexity in the process.
But MLE wasn't an exception
I recall at least another very modern product to stream data in that is worth of mentioning. The thing was so horrendous to use that my subconscious removed the name from my memory, but google helped me: Listener
I recall it was some sort of a wrapper for an underlying Kafka cluster that the development team didn't understand how worked: throwing larger VMs at it only led to lower % of resource utilization without increase in throughput or decrease in latency.
In general there I have seen a pattern over the years where TD tries to proprietary-ze open source projects rather than release solid integration with them.
Teradata hadoop distribution and hadoop appliances ring a bell?
A big shout out (please copy this to
yammer) to all those amazing people in RB - the strategy, modernisation plans, the push to cloud and ARR, the MLE and all those other product developments in recent years have been game changers.
We couldn’t manage without you….
Over here in RB, FQ was always laughed at because his main tool was sitting on yammer all day and moaning. Easy to cast shade from the sidelines when you will never be in the starting line-up. However I'm surprised he left because his ideas were still much old school thinking and not really modern by any standards. Calling him a cloud leader is laughable as he had a basic understanding of cloud. Maybe that's why he left which was to go get some certificates in cloud knowledge.
@ffbw+1gkFBc2k I can totallyv see your point and the source of your joy.
It is so hard to endure someone speaking up, even more so when his skin is not white and you can't prove him wrong with facts.
I just wonder how it was possible that in all the rounds of RIF in the last five years Teradata could not get rid of him sooner: now that he's gone hopefully a proper investigation will be carried over and all the bad apples in the ELT that over all these years kept covering for him will be called out and a proper cultural revolution will be put in motion.
I agree with other posts on here FQ really thought he was big time when in reality he was just a kid from Pakistan who got very lucky and his lack of experience was hidden by others who covered for him. He'll get found out quickly at slowflake that he was a bad pickup. Talking to others in emea they are happy he is gone and even customers are thankful they don't have to hear from him preaching anymore. Good riddance to a failure of an individual
FQ had a big ego and was probably promoted far beyond his own skillset at TDC. He'll look like a superstar at snowflake because he knows more about what a database is than just the hype marketing terms that most of the snowflake sales people know how to spell.
Smart people are clearly leaving, faster than ever - can’t do much about that it seems.
My biggest concern now is who we have left and what they can do to turn this sinking ship into something of value - to anyone.
Sitting in meetings and looking for inspirational ideas and leaders is like finding a needle in a haystack.
The only people that speak up seem to have a personal agenda, a biased view or the wrong ideas.
We are lost.
Clearly, the ‘Idiati’ of Teradata should not miss him then.
Until we do.
When everyone wakes up, it’s usually after another 100 customers have left, loads of distracting DUI events have taken place, the churn war room has been fired up (again), another management consultant is engaged and you can provide Vantage for free until it becomes a modern, cloud native copy from 2018.
@3gii+1gkFBc2k is in denial. FQ drove many strategic deals and knew more about Teradata than the entire ELT combined. He was also very good in front of customers. I know it hurts to lose a great employee so your revisionist history is understandable. This is a disaster for TDC, especially in Europe since FQ knows all the issues with "Vantage" which is really just the old, tired database from ten years ago renamed. And he has relationships with all the customers. This is a war and the battle just got harder for TDC. Whoever let him walk away should be fired. Snowflake is talking your customers and will pass you in revenue in 2023.
Ill bet FQ posted this
If you are referring to FQ the person who spent 3 minutes over three years expressing product concerns and the remainder of the time on yammer, Snowflake is in trouble. Not sure what his actual job was or that he ever accomplished anything
Marketing Tip:
Time to rebrand again.
Agency recommends ‘Exodus.’
(complete with orange period as a nod to better times)
Several more offers out with senior people that are checking their contracts. Expect some more changes imminently.
If you aren’t one of them, you should be getting ready to move.
Sell what is on the truck or sell the truck or change the truck
Why would FQ have wanted a more significant role at TD? That's like trying to become mayor of Pompeii a few months before you know what's coming. More like FQ was waiting for a better offer which he finally got.
HA ignored FQ because he was right, as is RL, they call out our shortcomings, and HA does not want to hear it. Look at her LT, they are all yes people, and she hates being challenged. SM is weak and lets KCC and HA run rings around him.
FQ knows our lame cloud roadmap and knows it takes weeks to spin up a “free trial” and an army of people when SF can do it in minutes. He was calling out for a more significant role and was ignored by HA et al but not SF.
HA threw FQ under the bus consistently, as is her modus operandi. Tick Tock HA, you are running out of time. People are on to your backstabbing and politicking, $1B spent, and no innovation. Watch out for DS; he is waiting, although he is just as inept.
First Snowflake took Teradata's customers, now they are taking Teradata's best employees. The future looks bleak for TDC.
Good luck to FQ.. and a big FU, I guess to HA and SM…
… hmmm is that coffee I smell. Time to wake up.