- Company strategy and leadership were pretty bad until recent months. After the primary marketing and strategy leader was let go from the company this summer -- things improved DRAMATICALLY within a week, and have continued to. This situation was the direct cause of dozens of good, knowledgeable and tenured employees leaving the company over the past 18 months
- Low amount of vacation (3 weeks) for all employees is below industry norm (even 4 weeks after 3 years with the company is quite low). Three weeks is unacceptable for senior employees coming from companies where they had 6-8 weeks of annual paid vacation. This NEEDS to be fixed
- Still a few horrible executives who demoralize employees, but these are being addressed on an ongoing basis
- A lot of employee churn, which has been hugely disruptive to the organization overall. This is slowly stabilizing and improving. SLOWLY
- Lack of strong innovation and sustained leadership and vision on the product side, although early signs are that this is changing for the better
- Alteryx has quite a number of "small company" type processes and things that take away from a positive professional employee experience: traveling employees as a rule don't get corporate credit cards (you have to pay for business expenses with personal card and get reimbursed); it takes WEEKS AND WEEKS to get reimbursed after filing an expense report; huge level of stinginess on travel expenses -- for example, you have extra layers of approval triggered if you go even a few dollars above "recommended" airfare or hotel cost thresholds (which are very low); daily meal allowances for travel are exceedingly low, particularly if you travel to large cities; the list goes on.....
- Attrition of tenured employees over the past 18 months has been VERY HIGH. This has resulted in a lot of experience and institutional knowledge (and some really stellar colleagues) leaving the company, sadly
