To my mind as we gain more efficiency and decrease the costs, while keeping the customer subscription flows only slightly touched, the bonus pool may get bigger? What do you think? Good times ahead for those who keep cool?

This place is a wreck and we all know it. It's a close to assurance that you will be laid off in any event once in the course of your life. Knowing this, what actions are you taking to plan for the day when you're notified that your position has been... — read more 

I spent the whole month trying not to worry about layoffs while focusing on projects, and it didn't work. I worried. And then worried some more. There's little we can do but worry when we know it’s coming, but we just don’t know the exact dates... — read more 

Its bye-bye? I need someone to confirm this rumour that I'm hearing from friends and colleagues? HR and my boss dont say anything. Some people who have taken retirement but I know people in the Nordics for example who are late 50's still staying on... — read more 

So Snowflake IPO'd a few weeks ago. How are they faring at the moment: Current valuation: Snowflake: $250 bucks a pop and ~$70 Billion market cap Teradata: $23.2/share and $2.5 Billion and change mark. cap Is Teradata: A) Going to make it -... — read more 

the pogram manager group needs to add value &stop randomization, micromanagement and last minute requests to justify their middle-man duty. I suggest project management 101 training to be mandatory for the PGM group Clarification note: program... — read more 

Maybe this year the customers will out number TD employees. Well if there are any customers willing to travel to SD. Doubt any international customers will make it. I am sure it will be a great success as always.

Do we know when is layoffs day? I'm sure our lovely and thoughtful CEO wouldn't drag it throughout the end of October. Would he?

The restructuring would be more credible if it also included a growth plan, i.e., cutting costs so that the company is in a stronger position to generate revenue as it had in its glory days. Without this, layoffs will continue to mitigate the impact... — read more 

However many people accept to leave voluntarily, you can expect regular layoffs to follow. Expecting anything else is intentionally choosing to live in denial. Teradata needs to cut costs drastically. The easiest way to do that is through layoffs... — read more 

Terror. Verb. To ceate and maintain a state of extreme fear and distress in (someone); fill with terror. This is what you have created by announcing to the world you will be taking our jobs. Yet, it is taking you months! This is your first act... — read more 

For senior and mid level managers this should have been undertaken by a neutral third party. Like a blind taste test. They should call every single manager and evaluate if they add value to this company vs. just attending meetings, hearing themselves... — read more 

An article about Snowflake's IPO and the data warehousing business in general in The Economist this week. Not a single mention of Teradata ! Telling ? https://www.economist.com/business/2020/09/15/how-snowflake-raised-3bn-in-a-record-software-ipo — read more 

Is he still a guru or just a has-been? As CTO (although not an actual employee) isn't he supposed to lead the technology? Remember how much he gets paid as you're heading out to the unemployment office.

OK, don't worry and be happy - here it is, 4 weeks of pay, 18 months of COBRA, and faster vesting if you are in the priviledged pool of folks with stock options. Overall, not bad, really... If you are in non management positions this will be hard... — read more 

Worth 8 times what TDC is. Go snowflake.

There once was a time, not that long ago, when Teradata was revered. We were THE giant in the industry. Yes, we were considered to be expensive, but that didn’t stop literally every major retailer, airline, manufacturer, TELCO and bank for seeking... — read more 

Layoff Severance +4 extra weeks, 18mo of paid cobra, faster vesting for stock options. Must decide by Sept 30th...all eligible folks 55yrs old, with 10yrs, and in good standing have been notified. Restructuring decided by end of Sept at ELT... — read more 

Starting Monday, we will see few friends getting 30 min calls.

Is there any upside? Are the missing positions in EMEA a sign that we are actually prepping for a sell?

Does anybody watch behind the figures? Does somebody knows that in some countries (e.g. Western emea countries at least) during last years (including current one) the way to improve project GM is simply obblige people to inpu training or admin while... — read more 

Major announcement ext week

In HR and PM before their Equitable Marxists attitudes sink further a crumbled company... don't need another yammer channel or 3rd party org to "drive" bs

In 2019, Dan earned $2,996,242 in total compensation from Teradata. He leads the services business which has been a disaster for years. A skilled third grader would have a much more positive impact to TDC results. Oh and in 2018 he made 2.5M... — read more 

Confirmed...it's coming sometime in September/October

Layoffs coming? Down 26% compared to last year.

She looked the other way as Teradata exec team of which she is a member understated core earnings to make future and current results look better. Forbes article outlined this precisely in article about not buying Teradata turn around story from... — read more 

Rumored that LN is retiring. Story is that SM directed her to develop the legal position to eliminate severance when RIF takes place. SM stated that Oracle and IBM lay off employees with no compensation and wants TDC to do the same. Story is that... — read more 

New CEO Steve McMillan just announced a cost reduction "across the board" including layoffs to get costs in line. When does this contraction ever stop? This has been going on for 4 years? January 2019 huge layoffs k–led us, we lost 1/2 a year. ... — read more 

Heard a few rumors that new head of product management (HA) is not being very inclusive (to put it politely). Seems like there is strong correlation between ethnic background and who she has promoted and fired. Thoughts?

What's the WFH policy at Teradata? Any plan to extend WFH like FB or Google?

Teradata keeps laying off the best people who do so much for the company that when the time comes, they'll have to hire minimum two people to replace them (and even that might not be enough.) Am I the only one who thinks this business strategy is... — read more 

In this past the big layoffs were in August September. Any insight?

I heard that in the past, Teradata pay isn't competitive and HR plays hardball. Are they still trying to lowball new candidates and lose talented people that may help the company from the death spiral or are they actually trying to be more... — read more 

News came that DS, the leader of the EMEA region, is leaving TD 'to pursue opportunities beyond TD', after being with the company for over thirty years. It feels as if the TD ship is sinking. Another executive in EMEA, RR, has left the company as... — read more 

Recent town hall was filled with positive news and accolades as each executive talked about wins, winbacks, renewals and new logos. Is this even real or a big lie?