Probably the best case study on a one time industry leader being blindsided by an innovative startup. Hard to believe after 45 years in a hot market TDC can’t break $$2B when Snowflake blew past it. This is what happens with mediocre, visionless... — read more 

At Ignite, Teradata announced new on-demand serverless analytics for Microsoft Fabric: Teradata AI Unlimited (https://www.teradata.com/Press-Releases/2023/Teradata-AI-Unlimited-for-Microsoft-Fabric) Whatever happened to QueryGrid? And how does... — read more 

Look into the video starting time 28:40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjcLWupY0jk

Many foresaw the charade that the current management is putting on. They predicted the demise of this place, no strategy or product, no new customers or growth in revenue, and continuous layoffs. All reality. The real blessing is exposing the self... — read more 

I was laid off from TD on 11/1 after 2 years and I see all the blame about the poor leadership. IMHO the culture of TD,mostly from the long-timers is part of the blame for the downfall. I've never seen a more self-satisfied group waiting for... — read more 

Cut and paste into your browser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=tktUNwtIutt6Kdqy&v=AiOUojVd6xQ&feature=youtu.be. 25:30 in the video sums up McK's strategy for TDC. I can even imagine NC in one of these McK training videos. SM, NC, KCC, can we... — read more 

The word is there will be some more in January, although not as numerous. If this is true.... this really becomes wtf???

Only failing to understand that nothing they say will give confidence in their leadership and competence while they continue with layoffs every six months... and the argument that the market is changing is laughable when layoffs are not only in... — read more 

Sums the company, the level of interest and the poor marketing up really well ;) https://x.com/Teradata/status/1724718891597734017?s=20

Several of my team members were riffed on Halloween, our future is uncertain and the mood here is one of dread. I would think this is what death row would be like hoping that when the executioner comes in he picks you so that you can leave this... — read more 

Seems like a lot of long time employees were targeted, which would likely imply an age focused RIF. Just wondering what the % of those let go were 55 and older.

In 1988 the United States passed a federal labor law "Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) that requires employers with 100 or more employees to provide notification to employees 60 calendar days in advance of a mass... — read more 

As of 11/6

Does anyone know how many people were laid off on 10/31?

I was laid off 11/1 in the US and HR said the paperwork would be sent in a few days but my termination date is 11/10. Still nothing in my inbox about a Docusign

RIF to enable investment in AI. TD hiring talented AI and ML engineers ? Let’s be serious ! Who would be an AI master and prefer TD to competition ? Only desperate AI losers would pay attention to (inexistant) TD AI job offers. AI party is... — read more 

PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL November 8, 2021 Jacqueline Woods Dear Jacqueline, I am very pleased to extend you this offer of employment with Teradata Corporation and its affiliates (“Teradata” or the “Company”) as Chief Marketing Officer, based in... — read more 

2K employees being RiF’d ? Lot of emotion we all understand, but few precise numbers to analyse. Across Geos and Orgs, it’s time to come with numbers to rate the amplitude of the horrible and unprecedented massacre that has taken place.? We heared... — read more 

How many times have we seen the ELT over the past 2 years drone on and on about DEI? Now compare that to how many times they've actually commented on business challenges and how they are going to fix it? Yep, you got it right. DEI conversations... — read more 

It started in 2015 with the misguided transformation, worsen in 2017-2018 with departures of a whole generation of future engineers and leaders groomed to take over, and pass the point of no return in 2021 with RIF of experience and knowledgeable... — read more 

Teradata : from leading proudly the analytics database race to struggling painfully to catch up. The bell has rung; one more lap to go and race is over. Game’s over…unless a divine miracle. Who knows ? SMc raising the dead, HA walking on the sea... — read more 

For the past 4 years, this ELT bunch has made so many bonehead moves and layoffs that continuously destroy this company. It is clear now that they were hired to dismantle the company by laying off people over time to not attract attention of age... — read more 

Why would you want to be a part of this subpar team? From the top to the bottom, not who's who but who wanna be who. They failed at previous companies and are 1st timers in their current role, learning on the job. They are not fit for the real job... — read more 

That seems a bit high, but with TD you never know.

I wander what folks will say on this forum, it's anon after all. There is so much praise on Glassdoor and the Board seems not to care. What's your evaluation?

There was a post yesterday from ELT supporter, if not NC or HR, trying to rebut posts on this board. It's been deleted. So it seems like they got admonished again for chiming in or their responses were too revealing and might be a legal liability... — read more 

Confirms worldwide lay-offs in email to all staff. He couldn't explain why employees with more knowledge in the industry with more expertise than his ELT team were let go. This is a CEO managing a once great company into oblivion. His inexperience... — read more 

Wow. Interesting article on how Abn Amro decommissioned Teradata…and why. This should scare any TD employee... — read more 

Literally, when was the last time you heard of a business do yearly layoffs for 4+ years. Then in the last year do 3+ rounds of layoffs? ELT is trying to cut expenses to make Teradata appealing to Buyers/VCs. It's time for current employees to face... — read more 

Ask yourself if TDC would be on your list of the Top 25 companies in tech you want to work for? Now you get to escape from this dying, woke, laggard and move on with your career. You may be sad or worried but you’ve been trapped and now you are set... — read more 

Although clowns probably would do a better job than ELT

I joined the RIF also, out of the blue. Hearing that they need to reduce 2k staff globally from 7k total. If that is correct, then you aren't getting due settlement in my opinion.

Only at TerribleData that this can happen. Constant failure by management and workers get the shaft. They will complete the week, congratulating themselves for a job well done is dispensing so many.

I got cut this morning. People say there's an HR backlog and many more are still pending.

If you can read, thank a teacher. If you enjoy your freedom, thank a vet. If you've been laid off from Terribledata, thank your lucky stars. You've been asking for divine guidance and now you know how much Terribledata value you. It's su-k what... — read more 

As far as we know US and APJ Industry Consultants are still alive. In EMEA, the buzz is : they’ve all been eliminated. Really ? Even in Banking or Telco where TD survive ? Either something went awful with EMEA ICs org or TD has decided to stop... — read more 

Rumour has it that TD is looking to reduce its workforce by 30% which means there will be further cuts if Q4 as predicted is down on revenue. How can you put a member of the ELT in front of prospects and customers to convince them TD is the... — read more 

These cuts will continue until the company dies and eventually bought out by a competitor or VC. Maybe that’s the strategy…make it a viable asset. Maybe the ELT are not clueless after all, then again there’s not much evidence they have a clue... — read more 

TD has a good candidate to win.that national challenge: its Hawaiian-shirted CTO. He led TD to blind denial when Hadoop and furthermore cloud solutions emerged.  Then, in the field, one can hear «don’t be diverted, It won’t work as promised», ... — read more