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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
4.0
Jul 17, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The people are amazing. I love the people I work with and I have never felt pressured or stressed at work. Everyone is approachable and easy to talk to. The CEO and executives truly love the product and even they are easy to approach should you need to. The product is great and the best on the market. Although, the market is beginning to change and competition is getting intense. Everyone I have worked with is really smart and you will learn a ton while here.

Cons

There is really only one product to work on and while the scope of that product is always increasing it still is only a single product. We don't have huge AI or ML work, distributed systems work and some other areas that are quickly becoming important in the technology field. If you are okay with the limited scope and available projects, then this isn't really a con. Things have gone down hill considerably in the last 9 months or so. At least, that is how I feel. We have grown a ton and hired a huge number of senior engineers from outside the company. Instead of the career growth I was told about when I accepted the position, I am working on less interesting projects while senior engineers, who were just hired, are getting more interesting work. I assume this is because it is probably cheaper to hire from outside the company than to promote internally. I have spoken to my management team about opportunities and they seem receptive. Although, nothing seems to change. Then there is the complete lack of a working stable build system. The build system is a house of cards. It doesn't seem that much thought was put in to how to scale the build system with the number of engineers. It is now atrocious with a full build taking several hours. It isn't unusual to spend at least 30% (sometimes much more) of your day waiting for builds or trying to get flaky tests to pass. Good luck trying to productive. Pay, as others have mentioned is pretty sub-par. If you want to work here, get a competing offer, otherwise it likely won't be competitive with other major companies. In fact, despite better performance reviews this year than last, raises and equity refreshes were less. Also, not the companies fault but the stock is completely unreliable.

2.0
May 23, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

* It doesn't take much ambition to be well regarded here. Prepare to shine amidst mediocrity. * Work-life balance is easy to achieve especially if you're among the many who own nothing important and live in production. * Nice benefits and loads of free food/snacks. * Good gig right out of university and potentially to maintain green card status. * Markets itself well as a workplace and product. Strong brand. * A good product for a certain slice of use cases (20%). * Dope office location and buildings in Fremont. * A solid flare of individuality around the office. * College campus 2.0. You can easily find your people here if that's your prerogative. * Good values.

Cons

Welcome to a company trying to be a SaaS and having no idea how to execute or support that effort. * Low pay. Laughably low for many engineering roles. * Operations is a joke; stuck in a bygone Sys Admin era. DevOps? What's that? * Dev talent here is few and far between. * Pockets of bro-culture. * New products are lackluster. * Clunky product for 80% of use cases. Real-time nothing. Visually repulsive compared to a library like d3 or even Power BI. * Super expensive product considering competition. * There's way more middle-management in-fighting and jockeying than you'd ever know as an IC. * Senior management might as well live on the moon. So very disconnected.

2.0
Jun 9, 2015

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Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good Desktop product, genuine desire to please customers.

Cons

When does a business become a cult? Enthusiastic, clean-cut, charismatic leader with a gift for public speaking: Check. A strong message embraced by the entire organization and evangelized to the world at every opportunity: Check. Energetic, hyperbolic, youth-centric culture that prides itself in unwavering postivity yet subtly punishes those who do not subscribe to their fervor: Check. Infantilization of its members by encouraging a childlike attitude, and by providing food in lieu of competitive salary: Check. You have been warned.

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Tableau Software Response
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Thanks for your review. I'd like to encourage you to reach out to your manager or HR team to share some of your thoughts listed above. We take our values and employee experiences seriously and would love the chance to see what we can to do improve your experience at Tableau.
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