Across most posts we see messages of inept management, unengaged Board, greedy senior management, kissing-up, bad morale, sales personnel who can't sell/deliver a vallue-prop, never-ending layoffs, missed market opportunities, so-so product (except for legacy installs), disappearing customers, no new logos, diminishing financials, etc.
For all posters ... are there any NEW insights (vs rehashing the same topics)?
And of course the cereal characters made their point very well. Thank you.
All sorts of people come here, I try not to judge. Not only this forum, go to any other forum in this site and you will find similar complaints. Stated countless number of times and rehashed beyond recognition. Depending on which side of the table you find yourself in that 15 minute call, either you will laugh your way to bank or find your grumpy self in unemployment office. That's how it is. Employment at will is the law of the land. You want to change that? You have my support. You want to vent anonymously, you have my ear.
Please, don't try to streamline the grieving process back in track with new priority topics in the name of national security. You did not quite do that, I agree but you get the point I hope. Instead give these tired, poor huddled masses a dose of empathy to breath again and figure out where to go from here. They always do.
You will have another time to gather around the water cooler and gossip. The person let go might actually be a dead weight or the toxic manager did not appreciate the irreplaceable teammate. You have right to hold an opinion. My two cents will be up for grab then as well, assuming my badge still works and you were not gossiping about me.
We are human, this is what we do - there's nothing wrong either way. All I am asking now, with all due respect, let people speak their mind as they please. Your opening statement was fine by me, OP. The follow-up struck me the wrong way. It's all good. No one is winner or loser here.
Seriously though, which picture caught your attention - being suggested CMO or the clueless manager from far away? Curious :)
Hello - as the OP I'm responding to the previous note (thank you)
I'm former TD, I'm not the CMO, and there's nothing in it for me. I posed the question to see if there is still relevance in this site given TDC's continuing downward spiral and ongoing layoffs? I was trying to get the posts "back on track" so there'd be more insights and useful dialog rather than re-hashing the same old stuff all the time.
OP since your post and follow up was genuine, like teradata genuine, I'll take the bait. I have few questions, lets try the low hanging one, two or many.
DEI hire is one of the well hashed topics, but its not in your list. Are you the DEI hire herself? Will you consider DEI Hire as new topic or will you update your bucket to be more inclusive? If you are woods, know that you have no business in marketing, yet you are CMO at td, good move for you bad for any other employer.
Op, why do you want to fish a NEW topic? What's in it for you and what do we get for each new topic? Do you have budget or is this summer sc. project for you to claim relevance?
Finally, will you please sprinkle few please and thank you, once you rephrase your question? Without these little words you sound like a td manager from a distant land without a clue.
Everybody is a racist? I’m certainly not. I hate everyone equally.
Wow, what a long post. We assume. You did that on company time.
Hey @OP+1jvavy936-- Lets consult with a few of our favorite cereal brand characters for their advice. What do you think?
Tony the Tiger, usually upbeat, frowns slightly: “There's a new flavor in the air, and it’s attrition with impact. Losing experienced cloud engineers and field architects is slowing down deal execution. Customers aren’t just waiting — they’re walking.”
Cap’n Crunch, eyeing the GTM playbook: “The market’s not confused, we are. One week it’s cloud-first, the next it’s consumption, then platform unification. The message to customers keeps shifting. Strategy without clarity looks like we are guessing to see if a different result presents itself.”
Toucan Sam, chasing the data trail: “Telemetry from VantageCloud shows real usage gaps. Features get launched, but adoption lags. We’re not bridging enablement and product design. That’s a product-market fit problem, not just marketing noise.”
Snap, Crackle, and Pop, reflecting different teams:
Count Chocula, cool in the shadows: “Board-level misalignment isn’t a theory, it’s reflected in inconsistent execution. Short-term cost control competes with long-term innovation bets. Without unified direction, transformation becomes lip service.”
I think the simple answer to this question is yes, there are new insights. But they’re subtle, layered in the data, and often coming from people below the visibility line. The issue isn’t repetition it’s that meaningful signals keep getting buried under tactical churn and executive spin.
If we want different answers, we need to ask different people and be prepared to listen when the responses challenge our assumptions. Maybe it’s a stretch, but the cereal crew might be onto something.
New? Don’t hold your breath. TD is a zombie company.
I'm the original poster ... and thus far all the responses confirm the same stuff.
The questions was "what NEW insights do you have"?
SM just needs money, money and money….
Steve, how many more data points do you need to acknowledge you have failed?
Everyone is a racist.
I found that if I didn’t like what I heard from management, I changed jobs. I didn’t whine about it.
I think what frustrates people the most about Teradata is that they're selling a product that enables one of the most exciting technical advancement in the world, AI. How do they continue to miss on this? It's like not being able to sell water in the desert.
It's just so obvious that both the BOD and ELT are completely inept + only interested in pocketing as much $$$ as they can while the ship sinks.
It's entertaining to watch from a distance. It would be awful if you were working there and trying to get anything done.
Let's talk about the racist behaviour from one of the senior managers in a region. Her rants about black people getting all the privileges is becoming unbearable