Appreciate the communication and transparency but the frequency of these meetings is outrageous and the content is less than stellar. Things are not changing weekly. Two this week and the culture topic was a total bust! And another appeared on the calendar today for next week?! Time for a break.
thoughts???
So maybe that topic isn't relatable to you personally, but many are still stuck dealing with its repercussions.
I think non-technical teams are trying to understand what really happened with Trifacta. With so many different departments, not everyone is fully informed. Didn’t everyone from Trifacta either leave, get laid off, or face a demotion?
At one point, it seemed like they were all in leadership positions, almost as if it were a hostile takeover.
If the code was bad, what about Trifacta as a brand? Did they have the numbers to back it up?
The reason the Trifacta topic is still relevant is because a good portion of Engineering is STILL effed by having to work in their terrible copy-and-paste cr-p monorepo and under the thumb of their nepotism-type management.
So maybe that topic isn't relatable to you personally, but many are still stuck dealing with its repercussions.
It would be swell if people could shut the he-l up about Trifacta. Just move on. Discuss something else.
Any way you cut it …. TRIFACTA = pathetic
By the way, the Trifacta acquisition was not a direct cause of the downfall of Alteryx. That ship had sailed long prior to that acquisition.
The Trifacta acquisition was just a by-product of the leadership incompetence and dysfunctional abilities of the prior executive leadership team. And lack of oversight and due diligence by an overly compliant Board of Directors.
Working on the Scamfecta monorepo is soul crushing.
Yep, Trifacta was a total snow job (from a technical perspective) and it goes to show the quality of the board of directors and previous executive team, that they didn't really bother to do REAL due diligence from a product/technical standpoint.
Sadly, that acquisition brought in some toxic people (as has been discussed here ad nauseum) as well as quite a few "hangers on" who were very content to just collect paychecks, kick back, and not do much.
Prime example of this was the previous "CMO" of Trifacta, who ended up becoming VP of product/portfolio marketing, and honestly after 18 months on the job didn't do squat. He was a smart guy, very articulate, understood marketing and COULD HAVE really made a difference. But he chose not to. He chose to sit back, relax, coast, get some massive paychecks, and then finally got shoved off the island when PE came aboard and found the incompetence of marketing overall, and the lack of action to really do anything. Not 100% his fault, he was enabled by the last Alteryx CMO and the rest of the "marketing executive team" (who as we all know were in over their heads by 1-2 job levels, all of them).
So, yes, Trifacta was a really bad thing in so many ways. It's the fault of the previous exec team and the BoD for allowing that to happen. They could have done much better with a few "tuck in" acquisitions of specific technologies (companies like Hyper Anna) that would have paid much higher dividends.
What does this mean?
Swindled.
Trifacta's marketing lacked concrete metrics.
What does this mean?
Speaking from a former AE perspective, it was perplexing at the time and remains so.
Trifecta you mean? Did that bunch of clowns take over Alteryx? running the muppet show? Wow... that's very hilarious.
Can you reveal any of those on the muppet show that have any relevance or something of those extraordinary leads? stay tuned because only good things are about to happen.
Why announce it? She's currently Sr.Director of Demand Gen, Trifacta. Runs everything at Alteryx.
Our temporary CMO is quite submissive when it comes to the Queen of Demand Generation, SEO, Writing, Advertising, Web, and whatever other area she decides to meddle in.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they announce a new CEO.
Why announce it? She's currently Sr.Director of Demand Gen, Trifacta. Runs everything at Alteryx.
That culture chat was the absolute ultimate weak-sauce. Absolutely unnecessary and ridiculous.
OOO today. Can you provide quick summary. Anything big?
That culture chat was the absolute ultimate weak-sauce.
Absolutely unnecessary and ridiculous.
Smoke and mirrors.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they announce a new CEO. Seems like the CULTure chat was set up to calm nerves preemptively about changes that a new CEO could bring.
Alteryx was never the same when the brought the Alter.Us.