Tableau Software reviews

Mediocre people. Company claims to take great strides in hiring the right employee by making the process long and ends up getting all the bad ones. They talk about culture quite a bit. But, respect, collaboration, honesty can all be missing. Mediocre people will have to violate all these to survive and that is exactly what it happens. You can fire half of them and still be ok. There are roles which are basically "looking for things to do" and hence can impede you doing the work. New blood like head of sales bring Oracle type of approach which screws up culture to an even larger extent. Company tends to hire more in wrong roles (training management, customer ops, commercial) and less in really needed areas (services). Self service is far from reality with this product and needs services to do any anything meaningful. International regions are worst. They have been there for a while and hence have the entitlement mentality. They also do their own thing. Can't get anything done with them since they think USA is trying to enter their territory. Quota is assigned randomly. Some will do 1000% and others will do 20% of quota. No worries. Still the low performers can hang around because the company has no clue in quota assignment. Partiality, favoritism and back biting are the norm.

The management (especially the upper middle management, has become very intolerant and impatient (some would say arrogant). Many who have been promoted to this level are not strategic operators and tend towards micromanagement (This could be due to the average age of front line employees). This is in-congruent with the CEO's leadership messaging. HR has immature processes for conflict resolution and will not look to mediate between employee and management, instead they tend to act as management's arm to neutralize threats to the "culture". The management track is not easily attainable and employee development is not baked into the DNA of the company yet, instead it is extremely ad-hoc and depends on the strength and political clout of your direct management. Many tenured sales leaders are kept in-spite of many low performance affecting the morale and focus of the employees. Many of the parties and events are not +1 meaning that you cannot bring a spouse or partner to include them in the celebration. This was a practice years ago with picnics and outings but not since going public. Those outside of the "Seattle cartel" will find it difficult to advance and especially so if they are found to be cross with any of the cartel or those being groomed by them.