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3.8

70% would recommend to a friend

(1,146 total reviews)
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Mark Nelson

70% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

Tableau Software has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 1,146 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Tableau Software employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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1K reviews
3.0
Mar 4, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great foot in the door at the company. Definitely entry level and you are compensated such - my understanding is the pay for this role is below avg for similar roles in Tech. Most of the team is great, hard working folks. I've made life long friends and colleagues to keep in touch with. Great product too. A lot to learn and various pathways you can take for other roles within the company. Not much, if anything has changed since the Salesforce acquisition. Good benefits, ESPP, 401k. Pre covid - typical tech perks like big kitchen, lots of snacks, beer fridays, ping pong, etc.

Cons

The moral on the team has probably never been lower. Inept leadership with no direction other than do more, more, more. No recognition other than a small shout out during team meetings. Pay leaves a lot left to be desired considering how stressed you will be about making your numbers. People cut lunch times, breaks to make this happen. Leadership will preach "culture" but when it comes down to it you are nothing but however many cases you close. They like to throw around a ton of buzz words ie "freakishly friendly" which is confusing considering there is no metric at all for customer satisfaction. If you're a top closer, great keep going. If not, you'll probably be put on a PIP. Promotion path is non existent. People get promoted to a SR title with no explanation or path. When asked for reasons surrounding this, all the leaders will give you all different answers. Clearly promos are nothing but an eye ball test with the final say being the Director and how well you are liked. Team members are intimidated by leadership; if you have a backbone or disagree with something in a professional sense, there's a good chance you'll get blacklisted. Even once promoted, the team members continue in their day to day duties while not taking on SR level cases/duties. Even if you've taken on extra projects as a non senior member and excelled, it's more or less disregarded entirely when promotion time comes. Some people will/have got huge raises, while other top performers will only get inflation raises. When confronted, leadership gets defensive and will entirely dismiss you with no numbers to present the logic. Requesting days off is a nightmare with no clear process. You won't be able to take even one day off during "end of month" even though others will call out sick or somehow have already been approved PTO, further compounding frustration across the team. If you're looking to get on this team, put in your 6 months to a year time and start applying to other roles internally ASAP.

2.0
Jul 16, 2017

I like Tableau, not my department

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

I believe in what the product is. Tableau is a beautiful product and I am constantly amazed at what people come up with. I work with very intelligent people. I have a solid work/life balance. Benefits are top notch. RSUs exist, but anemia has set in. believe we are meant to do great things.

Cons

My specific department is bad. underpaid and underappreciated. The only time we have any power is if we have an offer to leave. Otherwise it doesn't matter. You wonder why attrition is so bad when the #1 complaint is compensation? Imagine that. Growth of the company means that the leadership hierarchy gets more and more flat every day. With this growth, I've found that our cultural values have decreased

2.0
Apr 26, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great product, throws fun parties, kitchen full of food and drinks, good place to get your foot in the door in high tech or if you're switching industries, but must be willing you make significantly below industry average pay. Good benefits and stock once it vests.

Cons

Upper exec leadership needs to recognize that just because some employees have been there for a while, it doesn't mean they are experienced enough to run large teams or an important part of the business. They systems are so convoluted that it makes doing your job challenging. To scale to the growth the company will continue to have challenges, unless there is an experienced CTO in place or someone with previous experience in building out scalable systems. A lot of employee turnover and processes can change depending on how leadership in the dept feels that day, which shows the lack of experienced management. I've never seen anything like the work environment here. If you're an experienced professional, don't expect to come in and be valued for your experience. Not a good work/life balance, in operations in particular.

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