Alteryx reviews

Leadership are invulnerable while making mass layoffs. EMEA leadership may as well be sales operations in the way they manage. Their solution to tough times being to 'just sell one more license'. Redundancies blatantly based on favouritism and not performance with completely subjective criteria that neither they nor HR could define or explain. A real kick in the teeth when you've been aggressively recruited with promises of grandeur. This made even worse when the person who made those decisions had only been with the company for 4-5 months. IYKYK. Despite all of this, not one senior executive has faced the same treatment. That same leadership team has also been known to publically shout at staff. Completely unacceptable. End of quarter reaks of desperation and customers know it. It's embarrassing. My mental health was badly affected during my last 6 months. AVOID!

- Alteryx's Achilles heel is the rarified nature of the buyer personae and the high license cost: for every 100 competitor dashboard platform users, there are probably 1-5 Alteryx-sellable users, and for every 100 heavy Excel jockeys, probably only 5-10 of them have use cases powerful enough to justify Alteryx's $5,000-9,000 per seat license cost - the platform caters to a more rarified organizational persona than management and employees would like to believe: a highly skilled information worker who focuses on analytic process automation and who has the correct and substantive use cases to justify Alteryx - finding individuals who fit the buyer personae mold and who are willing to shell-out $5k+ on a license is an uphill battle to achieve at scale for many accounts; hence the company has grown at a glacial pace compared to much-younger peers in the analytics space - pockets of cronyism, cronyism, cronyism - multiple rounds of layoffs through 2023 cut at least 15% of the workforce, demoralizing remaining employees while increasing their workloads - while not a single senior executive took a pay cut or was let go - 2-3% typical raises given in 2023 against a backdrop of 9-10% inflation - for some sales teams, 2023 quotas were doubled over 2022 quotas, effectively slashing commissions in half or worse - 2023 market and economic conditions made it exceedingly difficult for most sales teams to make anywhere near their total commissions and achieve OTE - migration of on-prem platform to cloud is years behind industry peers, and cloud platform as it stands is not well-adopted compared to on-prem offering - many in leadership arrived from Cisco cronyism with an ossified old-school IT mentality (instead of analytics sales success story backgrounds) that didn’t elevate company performance in the eyes of Wall Street nor enhance the working culture; the 5-6 year lows of the stock attest to the overall situation - the CEO delivered the least-inspiring, most poorly rehearsed keynote at Inspire I have seen in 25 years in technology sales; he appears checked out, a vibe I noticed with increasing frequency throughout 2023, including a stunningly out-of-touch moment on an all-hands post-layoff call where he told a senior Black female employee in front of an audience of thousands: “thank you and your hair for coming [to the call today],” a grossly unbecoming faux pas that was yet another reason he is unworthy of his $56M 2022 compensation package - for minority employees, the company culture has a somewhat tweedy, WASPish Orange County feel to it; past controversies have involved a leader/founder attending a MAGA rally and another short-lived leader making a racist Tweet, in addition to the CEO's recent company-wide video call comment about a Black female leader's hair... overall, the DEI culture here is worse and feels less genuinely safe and inclusive for minorities than at most other tech companies - talk is empty while actions speak truths