If your role at Teradata got eliminated and you’re still convinced you were high-performing, the numbers kind of say otherwise. Companies don’t usually cut the people who are actually moving the needle on the stuff they care about most.
I’ve been a cloud engineer working on Vantage for a few years now, and honestly some of the best days I’ve had here were when we got a customer’s hybrid setup humming or watched an AI workload finally scale cleanly. The platform’s solid when you’re deep in it. That said, the company’s clearly doubling down on cloud ARR (up 8-9% last quarter, double-digit earlier, now about 45% of total ARR), expanding margins hard, raising EPS and free-cash-flow guidance, and putting real money into agentic AI, the Autonomous Knowledge Platform, hybrid setups, and AI Factory for the regulated crowd. Recurring revenue’s growing while they keep tightening the cost base and headcount.
The roles that weren’t tightly tied to that cloud + AI direction were the ones that got trimmed. It’s not personal drama or politics. It’s just the company showing, pretty clearly in the financials, what it values going forward.