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Tableau Software Sr. Software Engineer reviews

4.2

84% would recommend to a friend

(28 total reviews)
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Mark Nelson

68% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Sr. Software Engineer employees have rated Tableau Software with 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 28 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Sr. Software Engineer professionals have an excellent working experience there. Tableau Software is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Sr. Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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28 reviews
3.0
Oct 28, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

The people at Tableau are great. They are respectful, smart, and all great to work with. The product is stellar and solves real problems for people, who love it. The company has a strong corporate mission and culture, which is inspiring. The company is very transparent.

Cons

The company grew too fast in 2015. It has struggled to right itself. There was a recent change in CEO, so the future prospects may not be the same as past performance. Engineering struggles to add value to the product due to enormous technical debt. While the culture is based on kindness and respect, it also has a strong Microsoft bias (and all that goes with it). Headquarters is in Seattle, which makes it difficult to have an impact from remote offices. Company is narrowing focus to only current enterprise customers.

5.0
Jun 19, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Friendly atmosphere which permeates from the top down. Nobody's ego appears to be getting the way of getting the job done. I get to work on cool stuff that regularly shows up in our big product demos. Despite hiring a ton of new people in the past couple years, company has managed to retain most of its older engineering workforce; they've all been very knowledgeable and helpful. This company throws the best parties. Tableau Conference is a blast; people inside and outside the company always seem genuinely excited about the product & seeing new features. This was by far the most generous compensation package I was offered out of three companies when I took the job. Don't know how it still compares, and the stock price took a huge hit this year, but still seems really good. Work-life balance is great compared to some other local software giants. I work a 40-hour week and have never taken flak for it.

Cons

Difficult for some in leadership to shake bad habits/practices they learned at Microsoft. Still not sure how we're going to complete with Power BI, which is cheap or free & good enough for a lot of our potential customers. Some of the build and test infrastructure wasn't ready for a giant influx of new people; that still slows us down.

4.0
Jun 12, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Flexible work, amazing offices, people caring about customers, every employee is happy to help their workmates, good culture, I work as a contractor and the make me feel as a part of the company.

Cons

Don't know if it is a con: organizational/projects changes seem to be something usual, Tableau ALWAYS cares about employee and nobody is fired because of this, they look for new positions in new projects, from my perspective is a REALLY GOOD thing, but I found people not sharing this thinking.

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