We need a leader who is technical and has a vision. HA is a product manager good at limiting what’s on the truck. Look at all the new innovation from Snowflake. How can we compete with that? She hasn’t delivered anything new. What exactly do you have to do to be a top 100 woman in tech?
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Incompetent leaders surround themselves with lackeys who stoke their ego. Sadly this describes the top 5 layers of TD management. If you've ever dealt with anyone director level or higher, you'll notice most only seen to care about pleasing their boss. The only way to save TD is to fire everyone but the worker bees and start over with a completely new set of leaders chosen based on merit and competence only. Given the current corporate fad of hiring and promoting based on irrelevant characteristics, I doubt that's going to happen any time soon. Thus, Teradata is doomed and the best the worker bees can hope for is to be able to escape to another company before the ship goes down.
New leadership is not going to help the fact that our product, which we completely rely on, is so far outdated. It's time to face the fact that the old flowers are no longer alive and let us move on to what we planted earlier and is next to harvest. What is that you ask? Yeah,,,,,, nothing. We have nothing new or innovative. We only have the same old, outdated "solutions" (I got to use a buzzword!) that they're trying to relabel as "cloud".
Look back in history where every company changed their name to companyname.COM. It took only a year or two for everyone to drop the ".com" off their name. They all realized that just changing the name does not make a new product. Instead, many dropped that false name and reworked their products. Knowing us, we will do this in a couple of years after everyone else does.
There is positivity here though. I spend most of my time surfing the web, playing games and my management has no idea. I love working from home. I love working for such a clueless manager. The problem is that the pay is terrible and I know, it won't last forever. The well will eventually go dry.
Engineering is not the only group with inexperienced management. The training team absolutely sucks especially the sales side. That female director doesn’t know anything about sales training and should have let go a long time ago. Gee, wonder if that’s why sales can’t sell anything? Or is it because the product line sucks too. Don’t waste your time taking their new technical training unless you have nothing better to do than to watch short videos that can already be found elsewhere that actually make sense.
How could an enterprise software company put two Engineering leaders in place with no experience or technical depth? The last 5 years they have been utterly flying blind. RP+HA=No Innovation
C-L-U-E-L-E-S-S!!!! about the strengths of Teradata, software engineering principles, and disciplined execution.
How did HA get promoted from running Product Management to running all of R&D with no engineering background? Teradata makes so many hiring mistakes it’s hard to keep track. ET as CRO? RP running R&D before HA? OR as CEO? Leaving VL as CEO? Keeping M.e. around. Letting SB be a part-time CTO. The money they have flushed on bad ELT choices is insane.
And how does PM get to hire so many new people? What do they do other than roadmap slides? None know our industry.
Hey but she meets her commitments 😀 Says her team is “crushing” it. And SM buys it, what does that say about him? Repeat after me - sell what’s on the truck!!!
Defund all the projects and hope that company gets better magically 🙄 Where is innovation? Sleeping in the barn on my countryside