The answer is to the first question is 11 - under the chief marketing officer
What is the answer to the second question you think?
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How many or who were cut in Marketing?
Highest marketing cut today was a director
Not confident marketing has completed all their cuts today
Today’s number is suspiciously low for the worldwide marketing team
will a few VPs get whacked during the purge of fall 2023 layoff?
You can definitely get rid of all engineering directors and VPs and not lose any productivity. It is so laughable, we have VPs reporting to VPs reporting to VPs. We have directors and VPs playing admins to other VPs.
Employees gave feedback to flatten the org and in the last year engineering ELT/VPs got rid of people that did the work and none among their ranks.
No trust and no respect for these ELT/VPs/directors sc-ms.
Daily occurrence for the subject matter experts to be ignored by upper management
Dictator knows best
There are a number of marketing VPs that came from or live by hierarchical views. This must be how working in the 1980s felt like. There is a lot of incredible talent VP/below ironically from more successful, larger IT companies that is overlooked each day. I've seen ideas completely disregarded from people who came from actually successful growth-oriented companies.
VP is just a lofty title for someone who does very little work other than to say Yes all the time to the orders that are barked from above. Clear out 50% of VP's in Teradata and the business will continue on without interruption. At least we'll save a lot of money in salary for their lofty titles
I think it depends on what the department produces toward proven revenue. So Marketing would need ZERO VPs.
We have too many uncalled for VPs and most of these VPs would not even get a Director title if they leave Teradata today. Becos their miserably fake competency level and over reliant on their reporting lines (aka people on the ground that is doing the real work but not getting the credits) will destroy them if they dare to leave to Teradata.
Enjoy your VP title while it last.
I was listening into a meeting with a few of these new hire VPs. One of the TIO guys were explaining Teradata history and earlier products including data warehousing onprem etc
One of them asked what data warehousing is. I kid you not
Diversity is good but they are hiring outright incompetent folks
What is a normal amount of VPs for a team of 160+ salaried and at least a few dozen contractors?
For a team of the same size, there are 11 under JW while under ME there were maybe 5? 6?
And WV who left in September would have made for 12 VPs. Interesting JW opted for a reorg instead of reposting WV’s SVP role.
Half dozen marketing departures and two retirees (one retired, and one upcoming) in the last few months but only two roles posted to cover those. Maybe spares a few employees from the expected RIF.
It’s a long-standing tradition for Marketing flunkies to make up titles. Everybody is a director or VP. None are worth anything and if they disappeared overnight, they wouldn’t be missed and revenue wouldn’t change.
I submit the answer to Q1 is "zero" - there is no "real" Marketing VP.
The answer to Q2 is "one" - a real Marketing VP who knows the product, can differentiate it in the marketplace, can enhance sales, and can our-maneuver competitors would be a refreshing change.
in marketing everyone is a VP or senior VP similar to banks to give the illusion of importance to customers
i would personally ignore all sales men and marketing titles