Thread regarding Alteryx layoffs

@trq They brought nothing new. It's actually pathetic. We keep sinking

@smg Ugh. She's a fraud and most people have figured her out. Notice how she sounds like every other reply from GPT? 😂

Good. Full reboot, please. Our supposed “strategy coordinator” has been a liability for far too long, and the meltdown in that meeting was just surface evidence of a deeper pattern of deflecting blame to cover a lack of skill and experience. Her constant “I’m insanely busy”routine is pure theater; she has been coasting behind agencies and contractors, and that shield will not hold much longer. Realistically, there are a few weeks left in this act—maybe a month or two at best. Her role has always amounted to shuttling tickets from point A to point B, nothing more and nothing less, yet she aggressively lobbied for a position she was never trained for. That job should have gone to someone with a marketing background and real strategy experience, not someone trying to learn the basics on the company’s time and crying at meetings. Get her out.

Look for more changes as the numbers from the new marketing regime begin to come into focus. Layoffs are coming in January as the new crop of marketing leaders look to save their skins by blaming those who actually do the work.

'Don't worry. She's running out of people to blame. Let her spiral and talk nonsense. 💅'

She's fresh outta scapegoats. Spot-fu---n'-on. Her job is getting eliminated in 2026, and I cannot wait to see her gone.

'So why did I bury myself in student loans to chase my career, while a former fashion-and-brunch-event cow pivoted effortlessly into a senior marketing manager gig?'

Don't worry. She's running out of people to blame. Let her spiral and talk nonsense. 💅

'Check back in 6-9 months and should be a better indicator of how they are doing.'

Ummm. The dashboard metrics are transparent so we already know they haven't done anything valuable.

Go look at our analytics for web and form conversions. Abysmal sh17. The fact that some of us still have jobs is mind boggling.

@kjh more common than you think. I’ve seen people pivot to engineering leadership from swe, even junior swe. Junior swe have also jumped to product roles with minimal training. Lead/Staff engineering roles given to people who can give “on-demand” instructional courses for fellow colleagues who couldn’t learn on their own if their lives depended on it.

I see hints of actual engineering at the principal/distinguished level. But not all of them.

It’s that bad. The sh-t-show has been going on for over a decade.

@hpm I embrace professional minimalism—keeping it simple, focused, and debt-free where possible. So why did I bury myself in student loans to chase my career, while a former fashion-and-brunch-event cow pivoted effortlessly into a senior marketing manager gig?

The jury is out on the new “VIP Marketers” and it’s going to be for a while. Check back in 6-9 months and should be a better indicator of how they are doing.

And don’t believe the hype about a marketing layoff in Jan or Feb 2026. That’s not going to happen. Although there will be some select hiring and also backfills as people continue to leave.

Current marketing and sales tactics are like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

1 billion dolla commpay!!!!!!!!!!~~~

LMAOOOOOOOOOOO

'Sales Account Execs. are past their prime too. It's all a joke'

Current marketing and sales tactics are like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

We are surrounded by people who shouldn't have been hired. Our CMO could run entire Marketing just with GPT. I doubt she knows how little there is to do. Sales Account Execs. are past their prime too. It's all a joke.

@6y6 'learning python is easier'

Shut up you dork.

@6bj Too expensive. Learning Python is easier. SavantLabs are outdoing us. Our metrics will continue falling into the abyss.

With all metrics declining HARD, there's optimism that the new VIP marketers can halt the customer outflow.

Our trial (free! lol) is slow-motion car crash in a parking lot that’s already half-empty. The fact that every meaningful KPI is in decline screams severe engagement erosion and conversion apathy.

People don’t want our free trial, and that’s the SaaS equivalent of someone refusing a free slice of pizza. Either the CTA su-ks, the offer su-ks, or both.

Could someone from Web Analytics share insights on website conversion rates? We've already reviewed the trial metrics. Please let us see!

Whatever. Time to leave

@26k The $200,000 salary doesn't stretch far, with the US dollar losing 25% of its value and the cost of living rising.

Losing our stock options put us under even more. This is why many people are leaving for better paying jobs.

@66m The usual stretch for Marketing cats 'round here is about two years, see? Any mug stickin' around longer than that’s gotta be pure gold, ‘specially them tough cookies who weathered the last two, three boss shake-ups, the switch from public to private, a mess o’ reorgs, and all the damn drama. Keep them dames and fellas tight, ya hear?

Most marketers have either left or been let go. The remaining team consists of a few key individuals with deep historical knowledge and cross-functional expertise, who are essential for at least another year.

The current executive and incoming marketing executives will realize the futility of it all in the next 18 months, and will move in to their next gig from there. It will take 12-18 months for them to realize that stuff just isn’t fixable at Alteryx.

We will have yet another net-new executive team incoming in 24 months.

Meanwhile, good employees are continuing to leave literally on a weekly basis. The Product ranks are taking some big hits lately.

Many if not most people are leaving and don’t even have new jobs lined up !! They are just bailing out and taking some time off, before looking for new jobs.

It’s really getting worse and worse.

@1vg Tbh, most people getting 150,000 - 200,000 are still broke.

Very well. The matter is of no consequence. Let another marketing team endeavor to restore our platform, if they will. Databrix has released a product—Databricks One or Databricka Lakeview—that surpasses ours in direct competition. This is merely the nature of things.

Our Designer One will find its place among the wares of IBM, TIBCO, or others who take what remains. So be it.

'If they're collecting over-sized paychecks what BS are they putting up with? '

The unbearable weight of their over-sized paychecks, of course.

@15m same happens from IC engineering -> manager or product owner. “Oh fu-k I am a weak engineer, no one will let me pivot but Alteryx, woohooooo”.

let the bodies hit the floor, let the bodies hit the floor!

So, instead, Marketing people just sit around and collect their over-sized paychecks, putting up with huge amounts of BS.

If they're collecting over-sized paychecks what BS are they putting up with? Rumorville, narcissistic tactics from coworkers, management-disruption, what exactly? It seems like they got it made. What numbers are they pulling?

But, the time of reckoning is coming. It will be fully arriving by mid- to late-July. A LOT of people are going to find themselves out of a job, and wishing they'd not stayed at AYX as long as they had.

So.. just another summer at AYX? Nothing different from past six plus years.

Not sure that folks interviewing and applying at other firms is really news. I'd say 90% of folks in Marketing/Brand/Comms have been doing this for the past year.

Ouch. Really? They pretend like they busy and full of chaos. Their PM is always panicky and annoying. She was the same way in her previous role.

Most of them just haven't been successful in landing a new job. Often this is because AYX is viewed by other firms (especially competitors or adjacent firms and partners) as a "scarlet letter" on the forehead of interviewees, so they don't advance past the first round or screening round of interviews.

I question whether Alteryx resembles The Scarlet Letter unless one scours reviews across multiple platforms. The likely culprit to not getting a new job? Many marketing, branding, and communications hires in recent years lack the depth of experience needed to excel. They often fall into three camps: those who stagnated in a single role for too long, missing exposure to diverse business operations, those who abruptly shifted from unrelated fields, quickly branding themselves as experts without the credentials to match, and those who live in retirement places while demanding top-tier city salaries.

So-called “rockstars” fail to impress elsewhere. With poor performance metrics, leadership turnover every one to two years, and a lack of consistency, those grappling with impostor syndrome are now the most visibly angry and emotional.

At AYX, it’s not uncommon for someone to transition from a secretarial role to a marketing digital, or product strategy director overnight. Only a handful of employees possess verifiable expertise; the rest are improvising and sinking anybody who they see as threat. That's really it. Take a spin on LinkedIn and view profiles/experiences of people in those three departments.

Not sure that folks interviewing and applying at other firms is really news. I'd say 90% of folks in Marketing/Brand/Comms have been doing this for the past year.

Most of them just haven't been successful in landing a new job. Often this is because AYX is viewed by other firms (especially competitors or adjacent firms and partners) as a "scarlet letter" on the forehead of interviewees, so they don't advance past the first round or screening round of interviews.

I've spoken with at least a dozen colleagues in Marketing who have interviewed with 10-15 different firms and never advanced into a final candidate decision slot, because of this problem.

So, instead, Marketing people just sit around and collect their over-sized paychecks, putting up with huge amounts of BS.

But, the time of reckoning is coming. It will be fully arriving by mid- to late-July. A LOT of people are going to find themselves out of a job, and wishing they'd not stayed at AYX as long as they had.

The feeling of knowing that you are semi-unemployable really su-ks, doesn't it?

our product and marketing people are applying and interviewing with Stability.Ai, DataBricks, and DataRobot.

Whoa, Nellie. 😂😂😂 This explains so much. At least they seem prepared to jump ship.

...and bunch of our product and marketing people are applying and interviewing with Stability.Ai, DataBricks, and DataRobot.

News on every corner.

@f1 it's overdue.

@ft Indeed, senior managers are included too. It's no secret that many here struggle to find jobs elsewhere—either they reside in less competitive cities or their skills aren't in high demand.

Blimey, the marketing lot, are in for a proper thrashing soon. Most of them aren’t top-notch, experienced marketers, and they’re stuck living out in the middle of nowhere, aren’t they. Can't pay someone 190k just because they're crying non stop.

Make Alteryx Great Again ship sailed.

@f1 All directors are getting booted.

Wen is the CPO going to turn over the director cadre?

@ed

Nothing new, just wait until a new CTO gets hired, same will happen in Engineering.

That's brutal.

CMO brought two her own. Demand Gen people are on their way...

If I were in Marketing, I'd either wait to be laid off or find a job somewhere more stable and predictable.