Thread regarding Teradata Corp. layoffs

Found new freedom after Teradata

I got riffed as part of the Halloween Sweep and now found my dream role which I begin soon. Time away from working life at Teradata has taught me that it really is not a nice place to be at.

When I joined, it was great and we were winning deals and making great money. But I witnessed the steady decline with ELT's joining who were obviously out of their depth and the death spiral began. Today I read from afar, that the entire ELT currently there are nothing but a bunch of no hopers with zero understanding of data and analytics.

If anyone asks me whether Teradata would be a good company to join, I will tell them straight up not to do it. And I encourage everyone to warn others thinking of joining.

The fun part is that my new job, I will be taking business away from Teradata. My life mission now is to help customers accelerate their migration off a legacy platform. Revenge will be ever so sweet

by Anonymous
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Glad to hear from these 3 folks they are doing better.

What roles were you doing with TD?
Which companies did you move to?
What Geo?

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Similar for me. I got riffed middle of last year and found a much better role. My colleagues are friendly, the product is great and the pay is much better. Each time I hear from my former colleagues still at TD, I ask them when are they going to be leaving as the grass is much greener on the other side.

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I'm in the same boat. Got RIF'd but was able to find a new role. At my new company they've standardized on Snowflake and Databricks. After attending a few of the free learning sessions I totally get why Teradata customers are switching over.

I'm a convert, my former competitors are just easier to use, have all the most current features, and in general are very stable platforms. Even the salespeople are just normal helping out however they can not and pushing to close deals.

Get out while you can. Teradata ELT only cares about cashing stock options. They don't care about growing the business or addressing issues. This is reflected in the product. Soon all the ELT employment contracts will be over and they'll immediately leave with the bags of money they stole while driving Teradata into the dirt.

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