Pros
Really liked the people I worked with. Good volunteer opportunities. Was able to move around within the company and develop different skills.
Cons
First off- it was a “good ole boys” club. The company started doing many many acquisitions and quickly burned through cash. I wasn’t sure what the end goal was because they acquired so many companies. They got involved in a really bad acquisition in 2011 that completely sent the company into a downward spiral and caused a $300m goodwill write off. They ended up selling the company for a fraction of what they bought it for. All the management from my time at Teradata is gone because of that bad acquisition. Victor Lund (new CEO) is another one of the “good ole boys club” and was on the BOD of Teradata before his CEO gig. Recently the Dayton, OH headquarters was told on a whim that everyone would either be relocating to Atlanta or they’d be getting a severance package. Victo Lund brought a bodyguard with him to deliver the news. I left Teradata in 2015 because as I was managing the budgets and the cash, I just knew something was amiss. Every quarter close was a challenge when we never met outlook. We never had good news to deliver. It was always “how are we going to deliver the bad news this time?” Luckily I was offered another job at a much more stable company before everything went too south. But I still feel for those in Dayton because they’re all faced with a tough decision to move or be unemployed.
