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 

This is thelayoff.com where you get more straight talk and information than any yammer or ELT meetings. ELT really don't want anyone to hear what's going on and doing what they can to deflect, divert, dis-information, discredit, and suppress... — read more 

I never would've thought that a day would come when I'd think it's too late to fix this company, because I always hoped that it would somehow manage to get back on track. I wish I wasn't right

In 2013 the stock was in the $65 dollar range. Now in 2023 it is under $40. During this time the analytics market has skyrocketed. This is a sad case study of under-performance. This is what happens when you have an apathetic board who lets CEOs and... — read more 

No one in their right mind is asking or thinking that the glory of Teradata greatness and yesteryears will reprise. Any discussion of the past is to help others not make the same mistake and improve the future of this troubled place. We know ... — read more 

There's been discussions of this place being overly top heavy with so many directors, VPs, SVPs, and ELTS. Who is the most phony? Who is a not factor, or worse, a net minus that will do most harm to this place? We've seen NC, JW, HA, DS, AY, ... — read more 

NC and other ELT said recently we have to be patient as this stuff takes time. People would if there were no other options or experience folks giving them advice that they arrogantly ignore. The transformation started in 2015 when OR took over as... — read more 

What happened to our AI initiative? OR and many ELT members, since the sentient dude, mentioned that we were preparing to position Teradata to capitalize on AI and hired many super smart people for it. They were working on secret projects that... — read more 

We've seen postings from marketing, sales, engineering, support, and so on. From the topics discussed, they cover a full range of technical, managerial, social, and so on spanning from frontline workers, low level management, current and former... — read more 

We really need some of the industry analysts to dissect this place call Teradata. So many directors, VPs, and ELT doing nothing but fake work. Layoffs are a big sign of failure from management no matter how you look at it. Whether it's bad... — read more 

Teradata, You have a problem. Your brand is failing and failing fast, and you don’t see it. Your cutting-edge technology is no longer cutting anything. You keep giving the market away to your competitors. Teradata used to lead the conversation... — read more 

We only have five customers with very little product revenue from VantageLake, and none of them are happy with the product. And they don't see a path from their legacy Vantage solution. In fact, VantageLake calls attention to how un-cloudy our... — read more 

Teradata customers have “lifted and shifted” to run their data warehouse on AWS. But now all these customers will move to Redshift or Snowflake now their data is in S3. Redshift has made huge improvements in performance and features like serverless... — read more 

Teradatas issue is that it doesnt understand how to partner with other businesses big or small. It tries to sell direct to EVERYBODY which is the most expensive way possible to get new customers. Unwillingness to partner with resellers is... — read more 

Third time is a a charm. The board has so much confidence in Vic they should give him a third chance. Bain can come in and evalulate NC's 40 workstreams and develop 40 more of their own. The only qualification is that each workstream can have no... — read more 

It's interesting then and now... Then, Best of the Best (B2) award rewards best people that do the work across the company Now, we honor a selective group under DEI and directors and above that do nothing Then, Winner Circle sales award recognize... — read more 

Gonna leave this place soon... stuck it out until it's time and saw it all ... first all the good and now all the bad ... they won't have the satisfaction of laying me off ... leaving when they still need me ... I won't have to deal with this whole... — read more 

If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you enjoy your freedom, thanks a veteran. If you're benefiting from the Teradata name, thank an old timer and all that built this company prior to 2015. If you like the id--ts you have work with... — read more 

The rumors are ramping up again at multiple layers that the next round of layoffs will come by June. Every round of layoffs creates more and more uncertainty with current customers but more importantly the potential new logos. I fear things are far... — read more 

Apparently Silicon Valley Bank only had one board member that understood the banking industry. We all saw how that worked out. Does TD's board have even one member that understands the database software industry? If not, is TD doomed to meet the same... — read more 

I see so many people hating their job and being miserable but still staying. Mental health is one of the few things that cannot be measured in terms of money or material possessions. It's invaluable, and you should always give it the utmost priority... — read more 

(…..)This company is strapped down to one product, one sales channel, and no ability to change. At this point, it is helpless. Not even Elon Musk could save us... I know many people think like @dyd+1lCjGWD0. It used to be nice to work here and... — read more 

Oracle and Teradata started at about the same time. Oracle has $45B annual revenue with a $227B Market Cap. Teradata is less than $2B revenue and a $3.7B Market Cap. The same opportunities in the market were there for both companies. Oracle... — read more