Get woke, go broke:
Teradata’s fall can trace directly to SM hire.
He went directly to DEI, ESG and hiring based on imputable characteristics…
Managers had DEI dashboards with bonuses based on DEI. ESG was front and center with Each all hands meetings.
Pronouns had more priority than a bullet proof Business plan…. Changes to internal systems to make they/them smile.
ELT hires? Pure DEI.
6 years of woke put Teradata in this position.
Go woke … Go broke.
Teradata… the perfect case study
Nope, right overall take (i.e., that Teraturd su-ks) but wrong thing to blame:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/14/dei-policy-company-performance
The reality is that politics are the name of the game in this company. Those that play them correctly will be given fatter and fatter paychecks while the company continues to go down the toilet. The higher up you go the more you see that those at the very top of the company are mostly certified a-holes who have no clue about the company or its products...neither why the company was successful in the past nor why it is very unsuccessful now.
So yes, blame upper management but "the woke" didn't do it. The same way "the woke" didn't raise the price of gas. The complete incompetence of leadership did both.
What su-ks about Teradata is even if you try to fix things (I did). Theres too many mor0ns with connections pulling you back and not letting change occur.
However at this point it no longer matters either way. India doesnt care if code works or if it doesnt work. Just ship it and get a paycheck.
I have some scrumptious cheese that will go very well with your whine!
They su-k at DEI sir/madam/xir (forgive me, I do not know your pronouns). Take a look at the leadership page:
https://www.teradata.com/about-us/leadership
All white. All male. None qualified.
You are exactly right. I left the company because of it. NC, HA, and. Bunch of other DEI hires were clueless. It is sad to see what happened to a once great company..