So are we not going to talk about Mark Anderson’s racist comments regarding Doniel’s hair on today’s all hands? Very offensive to black women, not cool.
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Was telling some friends from Cloudflare about this, what happened to the posts with the video?
Doniel and Mark are swimming in their millions of dollars while employees making 70-100k are fighting on their behalf.
Excellent perspective. Right on. 👍
Doniel and Mark are swimming in their millions of dollars while employees making 70-100k are fighting on their behalf. 🙄
I am a person of color working at Alteryx, and I find the emphasis on race weird. I have noticed the majority of people bringing up racial issues are in fact white.
I really could not give a sh-t and people need to work.
If you want to bring race into it, how come a company full of white people with their privilege can't perform? See what I did there?
OK folks, I think the collective group here has beaten this Mark comment horse to death. Actually well beyond that point.
Let’s give it a rest and move on. Please. This whole thread is getting booooooooriiing and now is so unnecessary.
I do not believe that the AYX executive team actually knows the extent and depth of the problems that are rampant within the company -
- DEI / racism
- product innovation
- cloud strategy
- cloud pricing
- sales strategy
- understanding who customers are
- revenue operations
- executive compensation
- marketing strategy
Mate, it's too late to get the company back on track.
Agree with the last poster. It the snowflakes at AYX, all they care about is social justice and “equity” and calling out perceived slights.
There is so much more that is important in the world. We need to get this company back on the right track before it is too late.
The snowflakes don’t understand that.
I don’t care in the least about someone’s political preferences. I care about whether they have the skills and capabilities to effectively lead a company.
Current all of the Alteryx C-suite leadership are not qualified and are first-timers in their roles. Not the experienced leaders that Alteryx needs. As said they have destroyed a ton of shareholder equity and caused the stock price to collapse.
There needs to be change made. Hopefully it is coming soon.
How does he still have a job? Stock down over $100 since his take over, horrible hiring, bad decisions on buying trifacta, and now outward racism. What exactly is the board waiting for? Dear board, you made a terrible decision hiring this clown from the hardware world, don’t exacerbate it by keeping him on
Dean and the previous CTO Derek, are registered with the Republican party.
You really couldn't tell unless you looked it up. Overall the company is left leaning, like pretty much every other publicly traded software company. Who cares.
I think people are reaching towards anything that could possibly get Mark fired. His performance su-ks, and it's mutually exclusive of him breaking DEI rules.
Alteryx has always been woke. It's just a lot worse now.
Wait a minute. Some posts are calling the company ultra MAGA, others ultra woke. Which is it ?!?
The fact that people here are grown adults at a high paying company and using “maga” and “woke” un ironically is really weird
Alteryx has always been woke. It's just a lot worse now.
Wait a minute. Some posts are calling the company ultra MAGA, others ultra woke. Which is it ?!?
Alteryx has always been woke. It's just a lot worse now.
I can concur with the unqualified and useless bits. I saw and continue to see promotions on the engineering/product side that are based on feel-good, woke, affirmative action lines of thought.
I continue to see engineers taking weeks to finish user stories, and actually struggling. Where it would take anyone remotely competent a day or three, even if they were completely checked out.
Really not surprised at all at how bad the company is doing.
Really could not care what race/gender/whatever someone is and whatever offensive stuff they may have posted or said. If you can't deliver, GTFO. That is true equity. Not some feel-good prejudice and racism from the woke.
Alteryx has been the most dysfunctional place, not because of discrimination, but there’s been so many ridiculously toxic people like many on here trying to stir the spot and victimize yourselves.
I know a few of the people working here that were completely useless, unqualified and had no actual work to do, while still collective massive paychecks. The layoffs were much needed. And I think the company still needs to go leaner. Many of the people are easily replaced, but think highly of themselves while providing little to no value. This place was full of college grads with no real experience or skills. The more people continue to focus on trivial things like this, the worse the company will perform.
Let's not let this overshadow the fact that HR wasn't a good hire . Regardless, it was not a wise comment.
People who are hardworking have been laid off and their lives have taken bad turns. I think people are more concerned about paying their bills than some foolish hair comment.
You and her still have a job and a hefty paycheck. Over 350 people DON'T.
You people are self serving narcissists.
What amazes me is that you and the weirdo management team sleep at night.
Sweet dreams to all of you. Live with yourselves if you can.
Dear Alteryx Team,
I have spent the last several days reflecting on my comments during our recent All Hands meeting, and I felt it was important to take responsibility for it and address it with all of you.
I am deeply sorry for a comment I made at the top of the call. When I first welcomed Doniel Sutton, our Chief People Officer, I made a remark about her hair. This comment was inappropriate and does not align with my and our company values. Please know that in addition to my apology to Doniel at the end of the All Hands meeting, I have also apologized to her privately.
Commenting on aspects of anyone’s appearance is unacceptable and especially so when it is tied to a history of discrimination and disenfranchisement. I recognize my poor judgment in this comment, and I’m reminded our Mosaic ERG hosted a panel session earlier this year on the very topic of Black women’s hair. There are also resources available including The CROWN Act
There was a ghost-written email from the CEO that was sent to all employees apologizing for the comment about the CPO's hair. Pretty groveling, too.
What are peoples' thoughts about this email?
lol this thread reminded me of why I left Alteryx:
The employees at that company are so incredibly toxic they managed to build a culture of hatred and dysfunction. No wonder the company's collapsing and the stock is in the dumpster. Their employees are far more worried about attacking every comment made by anyone than actually doing any relevant or worthwhile work.
Is it impacting Marks employment?
This controversy is the beginning of the end for the CEO. He was forgiven his past transgression with regard to the racism tweet made by his buddy, but this one isn’t going to be so easily explained away or forgiven.
We’re now going to see an increasing groundswell of calls for his resignation.
It’s hard to say he wasn’t aware of how inappropriate and racially toned that comment was. We at Alteryx were all just mandated to complete compliance training which specifically highlights the crown act and explains in no uncertain tone that to comment on a black persons hair style is an act of racial aggression in the workplace.
It is absolutely not okay that he said that. I’ve filed a whistleblower complaint here: https://investor.alteryx.com/governance/governance-documents/whistleblower-information/default.aspx.
Have people started a petition like they did with Darwin?
People who repeatedly show up here to say calling Mark a racist is a misunderstanding or whatever are simply gaslighting POC. Stop gaslighting us! Enough is enough.
Way too many people are automatically knee-jerk assuming Mark’s comment was racist and he had racist intent.
Back off your high horse for a few minutes and perhaps look at the other side of the coin. There is an extremely high possibility it was an awkward comment, not uni testimonial or intentional racism
I know it is trendy right now in society to call out imagined and assumed racism (big or small) and paint undeserving people with a racist paintbrush. But you are being far too quick to judge on this one.
I’m not in any way a fan of Mark or Alteryx leadership. I’m just asking folks to look at BOTH sides and not automatically assume negative intent or bias.
It might be no more a racist comment than it is a misogynist comment or a personal bullying comment. We don’t know.
It is however for sure:
- yet more evidence that Mark Anderson should step down as he is clearly a liability.
- an unfortunate distraction from what was really presented in that session, and what wasn’t
People who have expressed that the comment was not racially biased are part of a significant issue.
I definitely felt the racism a few years ago when Alteryx had redundancies... its a neverending thing with Alteryx. A couple of years ago most of the ethnic minority were let go, that too with no real reason. The AEs and relationship managers were told that they did not achieve their KPIs whilst presales were told they have not completed the certifications. Complete BS
Now I look back, this comment is so on the spot. https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Alteryx-RVW43377120.htm
Just saw the video. Will be on CNBC on Monday.
Any one looking for the tweet can find it here
twitter (dot) com (slash) AyxBus28785 (slash) status (slash) 1689685021437698048
Will the board step in? This is getting out of hand on social media.
There is a video of it on Twitter.
Racist or not, sorry no one is a mind reader but.. it was a truly stupid comment to make that shows a complete lack of intelligence. That dude should not be running ANY company.
Anyone who thinks the hair comment was racist (either overt or implied) is one of those people who is just looking for the smallest thing to call out as racism. Certainly it was an awkward comment, and better not said. I'm sure that Mark regrets it after it came out of his mouth.
But was it said with latent racist intent, or implied racist intent? Absolutely not.
There is a big difference between an awkward comment, and a malicious comment borne of racist sentiment/feelings/opinions/intent.
Perhaps those who think this was racist, need to examine their own "quick on the trigger" biases and look at their own intent as to calling out others while they think themselves pure and white as snow on the racist/bias front.
You've never made an awkward comment to someone about how they look, or something they said, or what they're wearing?
Give me a break.
it's lightly moderated website, mods mostly nuke posts containing swears and insults, you can check their rules at the page bottom. given it's an anon site, i suppose it's their way to stop troll-baits (BS back-and-forths between two "aggrieved users" on every single topic) .
I don’t believe for a minute he came up with the idea to apologize nor the words of the apology. The rest of the C-suite that laughed at the joke also needs to address it.
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