No one stand to gain more than ELT in recent layoffs... certainly less expenses make it look like they are doing their jobs but their incompetency and political vindictiveness got rid of so many good people. Along with less headcount cost are the... — read more 

ELT had the gall to gloat on earnings derived from multiple layoffs, declining revenue, and fewer new customers. While many posters are expressing frustration of a workplace that ignore them and helping their peers to cope and transition, ELT and... — read more 

Is everything just peachy at TD?

A old trick ... when not making money ... squeeze the expenses ... this is exactly what happened and it will continue ... This can only go on for so long before the whole thing collapse but hey, the directors and above will be long gone by... — read more 

Everyone working here knows the product is what it is, late to market and short on capabilities, the organization is infested with incompetent management on the job training, and now trying to do a hype job to cash out. Just see who are all selling... — read more 

Seriously, what moves would improve things???

Right before the quarterly results this forum gets chatty, but it looks pretty quiet out here. Nothing to vent anymore? Everything happy on all fronts (p.s. not a typical gaslighting post)

We are not financial analysts but we do know the pulse.

I haven't been around Teradata long (12 months), but I have been around long enough to know that locally our culture is going downhill. I'm in the GTM team for an APJ country and we've been witnessing a gradual decline over the past 12 months of an... — read more 

You could see it coming but it’s still hard to believe. This is what happens when your CTO is a cloud denier. #TDCGotSnowballed

Gartner's latest 2022 analysis shows Snowflake and Mongo passing Teradata. Teradata even dropped out of the top ten. The chart shows the accelerated decline started in 2015. I doubt you will see any social media posts from Teradata on this but SM... — read more 

Everyone knows now that Teradata´s best days are behind it. Despite management and some saying those critical of the current regime are clinging on to the greatness of yesteryears, nothing is further from the truth. Experts from many areas of the... — read more 

There's no disputing the light at Teradata has flickered out long ago...and this place is heading into the abyss with parasites and vultures looting the coffer. When would you say the exact moment it began? Was it when the wrong people was hired... — read more 

Maybe Teradata should give each new customer a bar of soap shaped like our old Hardware Platforms. A soap DBC1012 and perhaps a 5100+. Well we have no new customers so I guess we would need to keep the soap. It is the only way we can clean up this... — read more 

Current management continues in same downward direction. No sense of urgency from day one, arrogantly spew my way or highway, operate on fad of the month vs what the company needs and what the workers tell them, and now in desperation mode... — read more 

Some will have us believe that Teradata can be saved and does not have to be another Kodak, Blockbuster, ... they could not be more wrong. They are making desperate appeals to save their own hides and to continue to enrich themselves on the backs of... — read more 

Directors and above have different incentive plans than the people that do the actual work. They get rewarded big even if morale is low, revenue is down, and lack of customers. This group is just as arrogant and dismissive of all that tried to help... — read more 

People who really care about this company's perspective: Yes, this company is broken beyond repair. Time to abandon ship and start over. Trust in product quality and broken internal processes and systems are least of our problem. Strategy... — read more 

I can't believe how frustrating it is to see talented people come and go at Teradata! No high performer sticks around for long. And who could blame them? This place is toxic and outdated. It's a has-been, plain and simple. The lack of vision and... — read more 

Teradata Corporation (NYSE:TDC) insiders sold US$1.7m worth of stock suggesting impending weakness https://simplywall.st/stocks/us/software/nyse-tdc/teradata/news/teradata-corporation-nysetdc-insiders-sold-us17m-worth-of-st/amp Come on Board of... — read more 

My perspective: Yes, this company is very broken. Trust in product quality is minimal and it seems all our internal processes and systems are broken There are some serious problems with senior leadership’s ability to pull together and... — read more 

Mainframes still exist. Teradata EDWs still exist. But no company would build a modern IT or data architecture on either one. This is why Teradata does not report new customer wins. Companies are stuck with both for awhile longer. But time is not on... — read more 

Q:: How long before TDC disappears (bought, taken private, Chapter 11, etc)? Important for people to gauge the remaining time/commitment.

After Teradata started doing layoffs without considering employees' performance, I decided to use all the extra time I would have spent doing overtime to apply for other job opportunities. It's just not worth putting in all that effort here if... — read more 

Never has there been more of an effort to create smoke and mirrors and busy useless work to distract employees. What started as a good idea has now turned to an endless litany of training tasks to keep people distracted from reality…. useless busy... — read more 

Just ask HR and her team, but she can’t be fired. KCC if this is what you call DEI in action, then count me out.

While revenue is declining, there's enough ARR so that this place won't fold overnight and still allow the ELT to milk it a bit longer. However, pressure will mount and this place won't be an ongoing concern. Should this place be taken over, all... — read more 

Someone still think they can turn this place around and "be a part of an amazing comeback story". Good luck. If you have the time and willing to take a risk and waste the best part of your earning years, this is the place. Even with a good... — read more 

CRO is responsible for sales and usually hired for big Rolodex. With Vantage Lake not having any customers in early adoption means it's really bad and no one in the Rolodex want anything to do with it ... we've seen many posts from the field ... so... — read more 

If this is CEO Steve's compensation, the ELT most likely reaped the same increases. Compensation vs Market: Steve's total compensation ($USD15.04M) is above average for companies of similar size in the US market ($USD6.80M). Compensation vs... — read more 

With the latest layoffs, many US knowledgeable people were shown the door. Engineering management have worked for awhile to offshore or move many of the work to Mexico to save cost. Just check the job postings and everything from testing, support... — read more 

Is there any real accomplishments relating to product improvements that actually and directly led to more revenue or customers? No, internal reorgs, process improvements, and DEI/wok/ESG indoctrination activities don't count. Customers and... — read more 

Well said by whoever that wrote this. Everyone have been forewarned in recent months of all of these. Read all the recent posts by current and former employees who are passionate and experience people with insight trying to help. Don't wait until... — read more 

We don't even talk about results internally. Few customers, little to no revenue, confusion with existing legacy database, weak competitive positioning, and turnover of technical staff. HA should be fired. JW too for ringing the bell and calling... — read more 

TD ELT being copycat and lack leadership to do anything right in the long term for its people and business even if it's out of the mainstream, jumped on remote work like a fly on rotten meat. In order to hire more VPs and friends and family, they... — read more 

The ELT wants to train us on White privilege. How about Executive Privilege? They lay off hard working smart employees while the rake in over 100X what the average worker makes. KCC, HA, JW, NC, and of course little SM. A band of privileged rich... — read more 

As so many pointed out, we have so many VPs and they bring along with them their minions that do nothing but fake work. They inflict so much damage to this place. When a team have a losing season the coaches get fired but not here, the arrogant ELT... — read more 

This place have lost its sense of priority and urgency for many years now. And it's worse with this group of arrogant self serving ELT and minions. They do so much FAKE WORK, it's astounding. There needs to be a sense of urgency and priority. So... — read more 

As if continuous layoffs is not enough for those employed by management, which includes TD very own incompetent ELT, 'Ghost jobs' are now their latest hobby to further inflict pain on those seeking jobs. Yes, it does happen at this toxic... — read more 

As TD's problems continue to mount, ELT and corporate trolls and sympathisers are getting more and more desperate to protect their undeserved high salary, bonuses, and options. As shown by many layoffs, they would sacrifice employees first before... — read more