Thread regarding Alteryx layoffs

Have been some real humdingers of reviews lately on Glassdoor. Latest example:

Gone Significantly Downhill

Pros
Interesting market to be in. Product is loved by customers. Truly useful product that makes a difference. Loyal customer base. Has been a growing company (until recently). Good colleagues for the most part. Generally have the tools to do the job. Compensation is generally excellent. HR and business policies put into place that generally have improved life at the company.

Cons
Company leadership generally is clueless about the product, market, competitors and how customers use Alteryx. C-suite execs try to run the company like a mega-vendor, like where they came from. Misguided management practices. Racism repeatedly embedded in actions and words of certain C-level execs. Layoffs executed callously and many many of the best and most tenured people let go. Marketing top leadership highly insecure. Marketing “investments” have been far too large and misguided — misreading what customers, the market and investors want. Over-rotation on cloud products to the detriment of bread and butter on-prem products. Massive cronyism and nepotism among executive ranks. Some totally unqualified and/or inexperienced marketing execs who are in over their heads. Blatant favoritism in hiring and layoff decisions.

Advice to Management
This is my third review in four years at the company. All of my past reviews have been four stars. With everything that has happened during 2023, my current review is slipping to three stars, and in reality should probably be two stars. All of the overt and stealth rounds of layoffs this year have built up huge resentment and a massive lack of trust among rank and file employees. It is going to take massive effort to rebuild the company and regain the trust of employees. Meaning multiple years. The board should step in and get rid of some of the C-suite and other leaders who are toxic and unqualified to be leaders. Replace with leaders who know the market and who don’t treat key functions like cookie-cutter activities they did at their previous mega-vendor companies. Alteryx is different than most companies and competitors, and this does not come out in how we market ourselves. Customers are bewildered by all of the rebranding and slick marketing. They don’t care about it — they want great and ever more powerful software that helps them do their job. PLEASE get rid of the racism, nepotism, insecurity and bias that is in the executive ranks and is permeating through the company leadership. We are (and we definitely have been) a better company than this. You, the executive team, have truly let the employees and customers down.

I don’t see any banner at the top of Adobe’s page.

Another falsehood from an AYX fanboy.

We all know AYX reviews have been getting removed over the recent weeks and months. Not all of them, but certainly a select number to help keep the overall numbers decent on GD.

Not that it matters anyway.

Your disinformation campaign DOES matter and goes against what our own eyes tell us as far as negative reviews being removed and deleted.

Alteryx doesn't pay Glassdoor. You can tell if a company does because they have a banner at the top.

For instance, Adobe: https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Adobe-Reviews-E1090.htm

Alteryx: https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Alteryx-Reviews-E351220.htm?sort.sortType=RD&sort.ascending=false&filter.iso3Language=eng

Say what you want about the leadership and culture but there are just loads of people on TheLayoff who are pretending to know things they don't know.

Yes, Alteryx has a couple of companies on retainer who specialize in “scrubbing” online review sites of negative reviews. They have various ways of achieving this.

Here is an example of one such firm:

https://defamationdefenders.com/blog/get-glassdoor-reviews-removed/

Also AYX does have a premium GD employer membership, paying them big $$$. This gives them much increased flexibility to get reviews deleted, despite what GD says its rules are. It is likely that AYX even learns from GD who the reviewers are as part of its $$$ sponsorship.

Yeah... F glassdoor and F alteryx. And F doniel too....

I have seen several recent highly negative Glassdoor Alteryx reviews deleted, the most recent being August 31. It was up for less than one day.

There is now no question that AYX is successfully getting GD reviews deleted.

This reflects so poorly on the company. Why would they push to get negative reviews deleted if they weren’t true, and the company didn’t have something to hide?

It just makes AYX look even worse than it already does. Note that Doneil has been radio silent in responses for weeks now. Zero. Nada. Zilch.

At least they can’t censor this site or Blind…..

I think it’s interesting that as soon as the reviews on GD started getting egregiously negative, Doniel stopped replying to each one with her trite, say-nothing responses.

Do you really think that AYX management gives a rat’s a$$ about GD reviews.

Nope.

I previously worked at a company which believe it or not was way worse than Alteryx. That said, if your company pays Glassdoor, they can basically delete reviews. That other company had an absolute terrible reputation on Glassdoor, but as soon as a new HR person was hired and they were an "engaged employer", suddenly they had a 4.x rating on there with all of the old reviews scrubbed.

F Glassdoor, it's absolute garbage.

I agree, it was definitely based on your liability... although the decision was made by a French SE leader who knew nothing about the individuals. Well that was the case in EMEA.

I can add to the 11% layoff criteria in engineering. It was definitely based on who management did not like.

Every round of layoffs we had, I look for known low performers. They are all still here. One of them has not delivered more than a handful of user stories in several years here. Male, caucasian, and as far as I know, not part of any protected class.

Yep, April’s 11% layoffs were totally based on who management did not like. It was a popularity contest and if a VP or c-suite person didn’t like you … poof! you were gone.

What a way to run a business.

@Mazzystar

The VPs were well aware of who is going. The VP of presales was given a list and from that list the people he did not like were told to to. Its as simple as that. He was clearly involved in the decision making. Also don't even get me started on the selection criteria. So unethical!! Someone has to take legal action!!

Lol DS... what about the local HR team in EMEA??? Never seen such heartless individuals in my entire life. The way those who are impacted have been treated is terrible. I actually wouldn't even treat my worst enemy like that. The local HR team have left me scarred mentally and emotionally. They have also shattered my confidence.

Someone there told me the VP's had no control over who was laid off. They just a list and had to run through it. I don't believe that for one second . My boss was let go and I was told our VP felt terrible and that she had no idea. Sure. What she really felt was guilty. Alteryx needs to grow up.

Nobody is arguing about whether DS can control the extent of layoffs. Certainly that is an executive decision. DS is just the person that carries out the decision (made by other key executives) to lay people off.

The issue is, and the thing that DS can control, is HOW the layoffs are and have been conducted. The issue was with the 11% April layoff that it was done in a very cold, callous and impersonal way, completely counter to all of the soft and fuzzy rhetoric that Alteryx had been espousing for many months about how Alteryx cares for its employees' well-being.

Not only were the layoffs done coldly and callously, but Alteryx was exceedingly skimpy with severance. Borderline illegal in many cases, by not even providing two months. TWO FREAKING MONTHS. Even large stingy companies will give a certain base level of severance (typically two months) and then additional weeks or months based on someone's tenure at the company.

The stinginess of the layoff, and how it was done, are very definitely elements that DS would have had control, or at least very strong input, into.

Furthermore, DS could have also provided stronger guidelines as to WHO was let go. Rather than leaders just getting rid of people they didn't like (playing favorites), the layoff could have been predicated on more objective criteria, such as the lowest performers or teams with too many people on them (redundancies).

Instead, dozens of really excellent employees were let go, many of them in marketing roles. Every team in Marketing seemingly had at least one person let go, sometimes more. And the people who where let go were quite often very high performers or people very competent at their jobs. And less productive and less competent people were kept on. It made no sense.

I won't even get started with regard to sales. Other people here have documented that.

1. Alteryx HR has no ability to remove Glassdoor reviews.

We remove reviews when we find evidence of abuse of our "one review, per company worked at, per year” policy. - Glassdoor

2. Stop attacking Doniel Sutton. The outrage is misplaced. Human Resources are not there to assist YOU; rather, they are there to defend the business in any way possible.

HR works for the business. Not the workers.
HR works for the business. Not the workers.
HR works for the business. Not the workers.

Once more, if you believe that HR is there to assist you, then kindly wake up by dipping your face in some cold water.

lol! Do you REALLY think that the exec team bothers to read this site? LoL !

Doniel Sutton- this is for you.

You sit in your lavish and luxury home in Newport beach, whilst you make hard working individuals redundant.

You live there comfortably whilst those affected are struggling to find another job.

You enjoy your breakfast, lunch and lavish 'company expensed dinners' whist most of those impacted struggle to even have the luxury of either having a lunch or breakfast.

You enjoy your stress-free life, knowing that hundreds are going through mental health challenges because of you and your leadership team, that BTW have no leadership qualities at all.

I hope you sleep well at night knowing full well that your decisions that you influenced, are impacting hundreds of hard working individuals.

I reckon this Doniel has her friends working at Glassdoor.
I've never in my 30 year working history have I come across such rude, arrogant, cold-hearted HR leader. Call yourself 'Chief of people' - how about you look after your people first.

I wonder what is worse … “woke socialist employees” or HR/executive leadership that gets negative reviews purged off of Glassdoor to make the company seem better than it is.

You decide.

Don't trust the positive Reviews coming in lately. They are trying to fix a sinking ship and protect their own big salaries and could care less. You can't trust these people despite warm and fuzzy " we love you guys" . Why? Because their words and behavior don't match. So therefore, don't trust the positive Reviews you see lately...check the dates.. notice when they write them. If you stay because you need the paycheck just get into therapy so you can have a place to cope.

It's not HR.

"Because we always aim to maintain the integrity of our data and content, our Content team assesses every employee review before it appears on Glassdoor. We also reserve the right to remove any contribution at any time, even if it appeared previously on our site.

"It can sometimes take up to 24 hours for Glassdoor to review and approve your contribution—sometimes even longer if you've reviewed a company we didn't already have in our system.

"If you're still not seeing your post after a few days, it may not have been approved. This can happen if your contribution doesn't meet our Community Guidelines."

https://help.glassdoor.com/s/article/My-review-was-removed?language=en_US

HR is on it! ;)