No career advancement and no employees investment - Anonymous employee Alteryx Employee Review

Alteryx is very top heavy. There are too many Chiefs and not enough Indians. Half of them are not even qualified as managers. Most of them do not care about their employees and need to take management classes. One of their initiatives are to retain top talents but they are doing the opposite by pushing talents out. It doesn't matter how hard you work, it's hard to be promoted within. A perfect example (keeping this as anonymous as possible to avoid retaliation), a former manager was working tirelessly and invested in the company as he put in many hours + weekends. Not to mention that he was undervalued/underpaid. His boss is clueless on how valuable he’s to the company. Instead of promoting this former manager or getting him help, his boss decided to hire a Director without communicating to him. When the manager left, it was a huge blow to the department and they finally realized that he does a lot. Management also encourages us to talk to the direct manager for career path and promotions. Wait…What!? If I go to my manager and ask for a promotion, I’ll be labelled as high maintenance. Shouldn't it be the other way around since they have the authority? So backwards! Directors and above get a way with so many things. Why? One simple answer, buddy system. It’s who you know instead of what you know. Most of Directors and VPs know each other. I guess it’s a common practice when a company goes public and becomes a cooperate world instead of a company that cares about their employees and promotes within. Communication here is just plain bad. The root cause? You got managers and above that do not understand the word manage, and they all think we are mind readers. It’s rather simple don’t you think? We are not robots so please talk and treat us like human beings.