Expedia vs Teradata
[Posting for my wife who's not on blind] Current TC: 110k She's got an SDE2 offer from Expedia with TC ~150k. She also has an offer from Teradata for a full stack cloud SDE role with TC 180k. Both of these are for the Bellevue offices. Expedia is a bit of a known - laid back culture, good work life balance, etc.. but don't know much about Teradata. People say their core product is dying, but they're seeing a bit of a resurgence by moving their Enterprise customers to cloud. Need help deciding folks! Please chime in your thoughts.
TD is $5B and Expedia is $20B. I think she may get a more diverse tech exposer at Expedia. Expedia is also know to promote women in leadership. Expedia has very good work life balance. Although I don’t know much about TD, I think Expedia makes a lot of sense. If she can negotiate Expedia that will be awesome.
I work at TD and am pretty optimistic about the future of the company. Our core product (the database software) isn’t dying and the company has been around for 40 years. Every few years there’s new technology that everyone thinks will put TD out of business. (HP Neoview, Neteeza, Greenplum, Hadoop, Exadata, Vertica, now “Cloud” - where most of the cloud database technology is repackaged software based off database technologies that have failed in the past to be widely adopted). Cloud is a big part of our strategy going forward, but the little dirty secret is that most companies aren’t going completely to the cloud and will keep on premise appliances for the foreseeable future. I mean, AWS just announced that they’re enabling AWS RDS on VMWare so that customers can use it on premise. I work virtually, so I can’t speak on the vibes in the Seattle office, but TD is a solid company to work for, in general - been here almost 11 years in a variety of roles.
Any idea about San Diego office ?
Teradata seems to be doing a decent job transitioning to cloud compared to other vendors (Informatica, etc). I know nothing about work environment though. The days of multi million dollar teradata appliances is gone though but the ongoing license migration to cloud is probably carrying them