this is getting exciting! the all hands meeting is full of positive plans for the company!
Forgo the ongoing RIFs/Retirement/Grudges/all negative topics.. let's focus forward...
I know there will be a lot of 'trolls' here, so just wanted to let you know: I don't effin' care..
just wait for the coming months...
and I did invested more in this company as I don't want to be let behind when it shoots up ;-)
LOL at the person claiming that the tech at Teradata is better than Snowflake. the tech at teradata is OLD. lift and shifting MPP architecture to the cloud doesn't make it cloud native. having downtime top scaleout doesn't make it cloud native. marrying process power to data doesn't make it elastic. sorry for you but TD is passé.
After being whacked from TD 18 months ago I made it my mission to warn people to avoid TD primarily because while the tech was good the company has laid off most of the folks who know anything about implementing it. And that is where the TD strategy falls flat on its face - if you don't know how to quickly meet a customer's needs, you are f*kked.
3 gigs so far and everyone has appreciated my perspective. Does my soul good to salt the earth so to speak.
The tech stack at Teradata is really superior to SF's... We run our critical EDWs on TD on prem. We tried moving to SF in the cloud, but we could not get our basic scale needs met there. Last year TD didn't have a good cloud play but the recent 2.0 release has some very cloudy feature and the performance is great. So we have decided to go with TD in the public cloud. The roadmap looks pretty good too. We hope this company gets its act together and has good stable leadership.
there is a good chance that the replacement will be one from our country. to those who put a downvote on my previous post, just you wait and see.
The CRO got excited too as he packed and called it a day.
are you referring to India as the offshore site? do you mean that our quality is bad? we always excel at everything! there is even an Indian CEO from another company if you still did not get it! that is how good we are!
ELT wants to push offshore is such a bad idea. Quality from offshore teams is bad. Copy/paste code straight from internet. That will bring the end of Teradata fast.
Martyn is useless and his direct reports are worse. You know the definition of insanity...
All I hear is cloud. How about the other 90% of customers on premises? Are we just gonna let that burn like the MLE?
The Mythbusters initiative went bust so to hide that Martyn is pushing Cloud Cloud Cloud
I've been hearing the "turn around" or "transformation" story for several years now. Anyone who still buys into this marketing spin is an id–t.
you couldn't do much worse than the vastly overpaid incumbent bunch, most of them have overseen the companies demise ... yet are still here and still vastly overpaid, probably more so than when it was successful
total lack of leadership, WTF do the board think their job is!!!
wow.. if that is the case, this is a good opportunity for us in India.
offshoring the board and ELT seems a sound idea
so in the end, the company will be taken over by India?
I like old wine.
Isn’t replacements from India good for the company? They are better qualified and paid less. Teradata should have done this years ago.
does this mean that all replacements will be coming off from India?
NYT just had a story about Ebay execs trashing people who critisised the company. could this post about Snowflake be the beginning of a campaign of corporate sponsored trolling? Those Ebay execs involved have been criminally charged.
Wow, Marketing and PR must have stayed late for once instead of heading out at 5 p.m. for a c—tail.
All the hiring in US is on freeze as I know. If anyone leaves, a replacement is provided in India if it is absolutely needed, not definitely in US.
There was definitely at least one person that started this week. They were having access problem with their new account getting to Teradata University.
Doubtful there would be hiring before well advertised upcoming layoffs.
I joined a few weeks ago and loving it. I read the reviews and joined with some reservation, but needed the money as I was let go from snowflake after making a complaint about people's behaviour. At snowflake I witnessed people stepping over each other trying to climb the corporate ladder and even bullying and name calling in the teams I was in. Even management condoned the bullying and harrassment. I have found here it is a much more mature organisation with process and structure and a manager that genuinely cares. And the product is a lot more robust from a security perspective which is what Im working on. Snowflake had so many holes as it was being rushed to market.
this is Vantage 2.0 story - OR in his Tesla was talking about AI running on Teradata year ago...
Go ahead. Invest more in the company, assuming you have money to burn. Look at history. In early 2013, TDC was seling north of $80 a share. Then investors realized that the company had exhausted all of its growth opportunities and the price went down into the $20's. When OR was appointed CEO, the attendant halo sent the rice into the $50's, until the street realized that OR was all smoke and mirrors. Teradata has been relying on the same technology for 40+ years with no new product innovation. Teradata in the cloud is like the old expression: "old wine in new bottles." In addition to Snowflake, it would be foolish not to think that Amazon, Google and Microsoft are not developing databases to support their cloud offerings. Teradata could never compete with such well-capitalized, well-run companies.
Sure, maybe you can add in some thoughts and prayers. Just don't look at the nearly 20% short interest in outstanding shares. AWS has .5% by comparison. You might want to reconsider your investment choices, but you might get a call by a CFO at TDC to join his team...so maybe it pays off for a bit?
no one would care as well whoever reply to this post.
Thanks HR & Marketing for this wonderful post!