Alteryx reviews

Alteryx’s implosion began on October 5th, 2020 when the founder and CEO was forced out overnight. The rest is a serious of unfortunate events that have permanently ruined the trajectory of the company. - the Mark Anderson / Dean Darwin fiasco (stock price is down 50% since Mark came on) - inconsistent, discombobulated, uninspiring leadership - a product suite that is 5 years behind where it needs to be - 75% of Sales leadership left in H1 2021, as well as 95% of tier 1 sales talent. - the most rigid, inflexible, and frustrating Finance, Legal, and Deal Desk teams in existence. - severely understaffed and under-qualified pre-sales and support teams. The most alarming thing in 2021 was the massive number of large customers divesting from Alteryx and not renewing licenses. This has played a huge part in the net expansion rate, which has fallen each of the last 8 quarters.

Alteryx is very top heavy. There are too many Chiefs and not enough Indians. Half of them are not even qualified as managers. Most of them do not care about their employees and need to take management classes. One of their initiatives are to retain top talents but they are doing the opposite by pushing talents out. It doesn't matter how hard you work, it's hard to be promoted within. A perfect example (keeping this as anonymous as possible to avoid retaliation), a former manager was working tirelessly and invested in the company as he put in many hours + weekends. Not to mention that he was undervalued/underpaid. His boss is clueless on how valuable he’s to the company. Instead of promoting this former manager or getting him help, his boss decided to hire a Director without communicating to him. When the manager left, it was a huge blow to the department and they finally realized that he does a lot. Management also encourages us to talk to the direct manager for career path and promotions. Wait…What!? If I go to my manager and ask for a promotion, I’ll be labelled as high maintenance. Shouldn't it be the other way around since they have the authority? So backwards! Directors and above get a way with so many things. Why? One simple answer, buddy system. It’s who you know instead of what you know. Most of Directors and VPs know each other. I guess it’s a common practice when a company goes public and becomes a cooperate world instead of a company that cares about their employees and promotes within. Communication here is just plain bad. The root cause? You got managers and above that do not understand the word manage, and they all think we are mind readers. It’s rather simple don’t you think? We are not robots so please talk and treat us like human beings.