Reduced from 600 to 300 in 2020. Further reduction in 2021 expected. Focus on getting work done by GDC, Contractors and Partners
ELT Salary Research
The latest RIF was preceded by yet another cycle of old leadership out, new leadership in. I started looking for offer letters on SEC and found some info, put it up on this etherpad, maybe other folks can add in details for more people they can... — read more
Teradata Layoffs 2021
Thoughts? Any Teradata Layoffs 2021? Any news or rumors?
Teradata Denmark is closing
No relevancy. Nor pharma nor shipping interested in what we have to say. ELT members should take full ownership of this. More to come
Marketing Investment
Any investment in marketing needs to be reviewed in terms of measurable metrics . Ultimately it has to show results . Results in terms of number of new logos acquired, amount of new / incremental revenue it brought, etc. Repeating the mantra... — read more
The Management Layers
Does anyone have any historical data on the hierarchy depth? Or the ratio of individual contributors to managers? I'm fairly new to TD and don't have the historical perspective, but in the latest all hands and roadmaps I get bamboozled by the sheer... — read more
Happy days with NH exit
So now that NH is going to work for KT, do you think she will learn that he was the one that dropped the boss on her? Kt, ds, nh. A holy trinity of ineptitude
Cisco connection?
*What has amazed me over the last 6 years is the erosion of culture and knowledge that was Teradata. How many Cisco employees can they bring in, that have failed one after another. SY, TB, BD and others. They thought we were selling commodity... — read more
Welp, there goes our roadmap
Hillary and team presented a pretty shallow RM. Appcenter, Unity, Essential (for cloud) and more are all gone. VCX is on life support... I didn’t see anything in our roadmap to get excited about—just a lot of scared PMs afraid of investing in... — read more
Patt Finn after 15mo says good riddance
That's two of our best ELT members... glad SB is doing great with his inspirational leadership.
Teradata State of (the union) affairs in its latest ELT Townhall
Time value : ELT conducts a 1:30 Hr meeting to repeat what everybody already knows! Transparency : No details about RIF or cost-saving measures were provided (# of people/projects let go, real estate locations identified for... — read more
How many boxes do we check?
https://www.glassdoor.com/blog/7-companies-you-should-never-work-for/
The ideological echo chamber
The ideological replacement of reason and the quashing of the debate is spilling over from aspects which are annoying but relatively marginal, such as the diversity craze, into core strategic aspects, such as the direction of travel. There is a... — read more
Classic gems from M.e
“As a CMO, you cannot have fear, you have to be fearless. You can’t blink otherwise the team senses that, other functions will sense that, and you’re dead in the water,” the recently appointed chief marketing officer tells CMO. “You have to have... — read more
Teradata - rated #1 for coming out
I have deals to close by end of year and no new products to help me and no meaningful roadmap! But we use our company all hands to hear about the CSO's boyfriend, how he hired his former employer (very nice), that our new CIO is LGBT, and HR... — read more
When are more RIFs happening?
Next week, next month?
Is anyone else sick of hearing "Cloud First"?
The LT thinks if they keep screaming it often enough and loud enough, maybe other people will believe it.
Relevance
In its heyday, Teradata was always listed as one of the (if not the) top databases / data warehouse products in every relevant article. Now, there are barely any "mentions". Being listed as a (slipping) Gartner leader is not the same as relevance... — read more
TD Altman Z score is terrible
Just take a look at the Z score for Teradata which is around 1 and has been for many years. The final result is they will fail, either being sold or complete liquidation. The only thing the Z score cannot predict is when. Bye bye
Q3 results beat estimates
The Company built upon its momentum from the second quarter and delivered another quarter of solid progress on its Cloud-first initiatives, achieving operational efficiencies across the company and delivering strong financial results including... — read more
Whennwas the last time TD came up with a new product offering? Not a new platform.
A product that gives more value to customer? How many prohects that were started in the last 5 years are sc-apped? 100%. Every single penny that our C*Os took in the name of strategy and innovation added zero value to the company in the last 5... — read more
Wow, two women in the ELT
Rearranging the Titanic’s deck chairs.
DH retiring announcement
DH announcement coming next week that he is retiring
What was the point of the last round of layoffs?
I mean seriously. Did laying off all those workers have any impact on the financial stability of the company in the future? My guess is…NO. Has this actually worked for ANY company? I’d say it only worked for the upper management and above. I feel... — read more
Share your experience on Glassdoor
And save the future RIFfers.
TD is abandoning the "Cloud-First" mentality
Figured since TD laid off mostly people in Cloud.
The Future of Work Results Are In!!!
Your more (if possible) tone-deaf answers below...
So what was the final layoff number?
At least for this lay-off.
What is Privilege?
Privilege at Teradata is: Being an overpaid ELT member that gets to fire others for your mistakes. Getting the job of a laid off American Teradata employee simply because you live in a lower cost country. Surviving the great layoff of... — read more
Lets document the fall of TD, a great brand that it once was
Whoever is alive after 4th successful year of transformation, please share Visionary CEO Tesla videos, all VL town halls and vodka tonic statements from ex-CRO. WeWork had foundering podcast, we earned ours too.
SEC filing?
With TDC dumping the consulting business, why no SEC filing? As a shareholder this is a significant change in how TDC does business.
Americas Consulting Delivery Offloaded
Can't be the entire org because there were only about 45 PS people on the call, but we've all been given the unique opportunity to accept an offer with a partnering entity (or decline the offer for "voluntary separation"). Considering there are ~80... — read more
Who is shouldering their work?
Considering that some of the people who have been laid off were essential for the work of their teams, who is expected to shoulder their work? Are they going to bring in new, fresh out of college replacements we'll have to train? Or is it simply... — read more
India
Anything from India, specially from Hyderabad region.. We hear lot of rumors and it is frustrating. It would be of great relief if they update us if that is going to impact India-> Hyderabad/Bangalore team.
ACTIVE threads...
FYI... Use "ACTIVE" button (BLUE) to filter out posts that recently had replies. It'll take you to https://www.thelayoff.com/teradata?sort=active
There's a lot of greener pastures outside of Teradata
Never underestimate the value of commitment, loyalty and knowledge that employees bring to the company. The world is a very big and accommodating place. And last but not the least - knowledge is power and those who dont value it will find themselves... — read more
Hacker News - No Comments on TD Layoffs, hmmm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24899353
Let’s all vow to leave TD
I know everyone here at TD are better off working somewhere else than here. At least we won’t have this f—ing anxiety of layoffs every now and then.