Thread regarding Teradata Corp. layoffs

The pendulum of sanity will not swing back as long as SM, HA, JW, KCC, and their collective woke-think are still here. I write this with no political affiliation but as a long-term employee and a marginal shareholder who has seen how a few people can negatively impact a company's morale and business performance.

Signed, Disillusioned from Wisconsin.

“ without lowering the bar so low to such white trash rhetoric.”

And the sanctimonious millennial shows their true colors. They’re just as bias against the straight white people who built the company as they say we are against the people being hired solely for diversity.

The great DEI experiment failed big time. And yes, we don’t care about DEI. We care about results.

Younger generation, you're seeing change the for the better in progress.

Disney admitted they've damaged their brand greatly in latest SEC filing.
Blackrock and Vanguard reversing course on ESG.
MLB holding 2025 all star game in Atlanta despite no election law changes from 2021, when they bailed on the city.
DEI poison Ivy league university presidents reveal their true self and agenda of hatred and people are calling for their resignation.

There's hope for the world but will those changes happen here ? Get rid of ELT and this place will last a few years longer but the damage done is beyond point of return.

As usual, the previous poster and generation miss the point completely. They deserve to be in the mess this place is in now with constant layoffs.

The point is we spent lots and lots of $$$ on DEI when we are in the fight for our existence. And spending it badly on bad hires and promotions as you noticed how those people keep their jobs. Not the people and their lifestyle.

Many of this company's past best performers and highly respected were in the diverse group of all orientation. However, they were hired based on skills, experience, and results and they proved themselves immediately gaining the trust and admiration of their colleagues. They have their private lives and everyone respected their choices as they worked and delivered good products and innovation as the main focus at work.

BTW - hopefully prospective employees, BOD, investors, and all see the discussion on this board to realize what problems this place has. How rotten to the core it is. So they are informed and make the appropriate decision.

Until this place change its management and mindset, it is a toxic environment where no one trust anyone and definitely no respect for management. So it's best to find better place and better people to work with. The longer you stay and fail to recognize what's been going on for almost ten years and no end in sight, you will be one of them.

We younger generations don’t make woke our whole personality, compared to some of you proudly wear your badge of hate.

We just recognize the way in which you criticize NC and JW (and I don’t respect either of them and also don’t know how they keep their jobs), makes for a hostile environment for many of your non-white / not-straight colleagues of which there are many such great colleagues globally.

The rist, sist, hmp**bic comments help solidify the reputation of a 40+ year old dinosaur has-been American-backwards company.

There is SO MUCH else to rightfully complain about with the “DEI hires” (as many of you call it) individuals frequently discussed here — without lowering the bar so low to such white trash rhetoric.

If customers, prospects, and investors read the majority of the posts here, how embarrassing. If potential job seekers read this comments, I am relieved they have a chance to see the red flags.

Once again, the “OK, Boomer” id--t weighs in. Typical vacuous thinking from the typically vacuous woke generation. Fortunately, they are no competition to us boomers. We run rings around them at work and then retire to play golf all day while they concern themselves with DEI rather than revenue. Then, when their layoff comes, we’ll still be playing golf and not giving them a thought.

Ok boomer

Wow. That comment and the bullet points were dead on!

yes, weak product and vision, let alone bad engineering leadership

but, DEI was the nail in the coffin my friend, no denying when you have

• CSO focused more on introducing DEI family as the primary message than strategy, and then hires McK to do the work

• all through the ranks, DEI hires were on top of the list, ELT sacrificial lambs to bring on DEI CMO, HR, CPO, CSO; all not fit for a company in an existential struggle

• when SVP of engineering lament that DEI HR and CPO are forcing his hands to make DEI primary focus over products

• mgrs were told to hire and reward DEI personnel; yes, they had to fill unwritten quota ala "highly suggested", so wrong people with no clue, experience, and even detrimental to the product, culture, and company were hired and promoted

• all these DEI id--ts are now in lofty roles with power to make decisions on products and innovations and they are playing politics rather than doing anything intelligent or meaningful; don't believe? just go through the engineering org and check each mgr and what they've ever done that is profitable and meaningful, NONE; very scary

• more meetings, training, and spending on DEI subjects to distract and divide the company at a time when we should be retooling the staff with technical knowledge and inspire them to go off and innovate together to solve product issues; any penny spent on anything other than existential activities is wasted spending!

• DEI hires are in total control and anyone that speaks up are shown the door or if they stay, they are neutered and ineffective, turning into spineless yes people to collect paychecks, rewards, and kiss DEI hires A$5es, revealing their true characters

one can say left or right winger but look at the hires and the actions and what is in common?

yes, DEI made Teradata's technology not work in the cloud and made the CTO call public cloud a "fad". incredible how all of these other companies managed to succeed in the face of DEI.

The Terrordata DEI fluff is just marketing.

The entire leadership team, with only a few token exceptions (for PR purposes), are all RIGHT-WING. My entire time in IT-- I worked for a FAR-RIGHT director, a FAR-RIGHT manager who were just shy of moving bedrooms into offices like Elmo Musk.

DEI does NOT define a successful/unsuccessful business. Since leaving Terrordata, I now work at a 100% DEI employer, and it is NICE and we are growing exponentially.

"Woke" employers are usually known for lavish benefits for employees-- free fitness memberships, gaming caves, public 3D printers, computing labs for studying, etc. Terrordata does NONE of the above-- they just go through the motions.

Teradata was heaven on earth before all this DEI idiocy. I started at Teradata over ten years ago, and I never saw such happy employees. But then those diversity initiatives laid waste to a once-great company almost overnight.

Oh, no, wait -- on my very first day with Teradata, I was told it “used to be a good place to work.” When I was there, I saw nothing but disorganization, poor strategy, bad hiring and promotion decisions, and a non-stop exodus of the best people.

My current employer stresses inclusivity and diversity — but morale is high and they just had a record year. Maybe the problem with Teradata isn’t DEI, but that the DEI initiatives are implemented by the types of id--ts that you find running Teradata? And maybe nobody who’s any good — g-y, straight, black, white, trans, disabled, etc. — wants to work there? Could that be it?

People keep going on about “diversity hires” ruining the company, like the rest of the hires over the past few years were top-notch prizes. It’s TERADATA, FFS. It hasn’t been run properly for years.

DEI is part of ki-ling the business and the token DEI hires to be ‘compliant’ is beyond a joke!

Why does this company need to ‘show’ how progressive DEI the company is. You don’t see other companies hiring id--tic DEI poster faces wasting money that can be invested in the field.

WTF has happened to this company!

Too late … nobody can solve the revenue decline … the damage was caused 10 years ago. No cloud solutions… unfortunately nobody acquired them .

Teradata is End of life like Netezza, DataAllegro. Sybase , Vertica …..
Teradata is not like Oracle … and just with some Snow … is in the panic

Not a problem until the DEIth squad made it a problem.

Who do you think caused "Terrible business decisions, stagnant technology and the resulting brain drain"?

DEI, the curse that keeps on damning.

DEI cost big $$$ for all execs because they must be brain damaged by DEI to be hired, headcount (each of the those bozos could have kept multiple laid off), displaced real talents with unqualified id--ts, in key positions of mgmt and influence that would be political su----e to disagree, and the coup de grace, making critical product decisions without any experience or accomplishments, ensuring the product will achieve mediocrity to the company's demise.

Get rid of all DEI hires and those they promoted and a big dark cloud will be lifted off the company. That is, get rid of the whole ELT or at least the DEIth squad of HR and product chief of destruction.

Amen brother!

The ELT know they don't have the business acumen to lead so focus on DEI as a way to prove themselves.

Their obsession with being seen as lbgtwiq+-% friendly has distracted them from actually running the business. A certain ELT individual even allocates a full day every week to just think about the next DEI initiative. Hint it's not KCC either.

Maybe DEI alone didn't ruin the company, but it became a massive distraction. It also shuts down hard conversations because everyone is terrified of saying the wrong thing and ending up in HR's crosshairs. DEI is toxic and has destroyed the culture.

DEI didn’t ruin this company, you just want to think it did. Terrible business decisions, stagnant technology and the resulting brain drain did.

Think or sink ?
Sink !