Pros
- Great product (although it has not been significantly improved for many years) - Salary is above average but this should be a warning sign for candidates (see below)
Cons
- Point solution and nowhere near a real analytics 'platform' (or cloud solution). I am wondering why no large cloud company just copied what Alteryx does and their competitive advantage is getting smaller and smaller. Move to the cloud has been announced in 2016 but was never accomplished. - Culture and people were amazing but with the new CEO everything changed. He hired one of his 'old buddies' as CRO (Dean Darwin) and had to kick him out after 2 months due to racist comments he made on LinkedIn. Although they are friends for many years (announced when Darwin joined), he later denied knowing any of Darwin's 'views' and nobody questioned this behaviour. -Turnover is incredible and the management teams (C-level to first line) was kicked out and replaced almost 80%. Now the company is led by people that are mainly 50+ and all joined in the last 8 months. Many do not care about the product and even less about people. People get kicked out although 50% of positions are open and many leave the organization due to the complete ignorance of new leadership. No one tries to really understand the product or listens to experienced managers and is pushing their old school sales tactics down the throats of those who remained. This leads to even more problems and more pressure for pipeline / revenue. - If you want to get micromanaged, this is your company. While open communication about problems and issues get ignored, they push you to work on call lists with superficial messaging like it's a 1990 insurance sales call center. - no support. You cannot count on any support from a business development organization (open headcounts but no new hires in months). You'll need to participate in pipe gen 'cold call' days and all pipeline issues land on your back. SE team is great but also slightly understaffed. -They are hiring everyone from everywhere due the incredible turnover. Currently 1/3 of sales positions globally are open and this aggressive hiring comes at a price. Since the managers don't understand product, processes and do not care about people, everybody is frustrated. No real onboarding in regional offices makes this worse. The atmosphere is quite toxic. I never heard about a company that went from great to horrible so quick and with such a negative impact. I can only recommend you to stay away and try your luck elsewhere.
