Management rule with fear, constantly blaming others for their shortcomings. This is not the fault of the managers, it’s the fear of loosing their job. Layoff after layoff after layoff. We must be below 5,000 people from 10,000 a few years ago. ”I’ve a good Idea, let’s layoff some more people and restructure again in June” SM, RP and the rest have lost the dressing room……how often do you think you can cut jobs and keep the respect of the workforce????
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Many executives do not want to hear the truth. The actual problems. As long as all the checklists are checked and they can control some ridiculous narrative that "claims" success, they think they have succeeded. Wake up. Hire up engineering in the US while decreasing overhead, centralize your corporate base, and stop managing with fear tactics. Managers are suppressing creativity and ingenuity. No one wants a bully as a manager.
C-suite has already been depleted in the last year or so. CRO, CPO, CFO, CTO and Chief Strategy Officer. It would help to see fresh new faces in the board, new perspectives and make the company executives more accountable.
You don't need to look for other jobs anymore; you won't find a job that's easier, more flexible, and higher-paying than Teardata.
Yes I agree, Teradata is a sh_t place to work. Nothing worse than not feeling safe in your job. I have no doubt the employees left behind have lost their trust in the company and are looking for jobs
Well, theoretically SM could remain the last man standing, on the Titanic deck, if he's up to writing TPT scripts, graceful shutdown commands etc... Maybe that should be his condition to cash out that golden parachute / boat!
The “cutting across the board” should start with the Board. And then the C-suite.
The culture is dead because nobody feels safe in their job. Watching wave after wave of great people getting the axe ki-ls people inside. It does not encourage them to work harder. I can honestly say almost every person on the team I work with has their CV out. It’s a daily topic of conversation, it’s a terrible feeling, all I ever wanted from a job was security, valued and achievement.
lol… buying shares at times like this just show real intention and expectations of the management, not declared ones… don’t expect them to stop.
My view is that we are not cutting enough. We are where we are, no point look at the past and talking about what we could have done better. Truth is that we missed the cloud, now we run the risk of missing the AI wave as well.
We should cut across the board - sales, presales, marketing, operations, finance - and massively invest in product engineering (catch up) and consulting services (hold on to the customers).
And for heaven's sake, stop buying back shares. Invest that money in product engineering.
Our local management think they rule because they've been around the longest therefore they think they know best. They are dinosaurs still living in the on prem world trying to act like they know cloud. We recently had JW out in region and they were presenting to a customer trying to show how cloud cool they were and frankly it was just embarrassing