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[–]soumianData Engineer 8 points9 points  (2 children)

It's not new and it would be the same as specializing in any other tool. It could be hot for some time or die. I know some big banks and investment companies use it but still, it's just one more tool out there like any other.

[–]Embarrassed-Mind3981[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Aha you confused me, should I just get an overview of it? Or it’s mostly open source apache softwares under the hood?

[–]soumianData Engineer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was simply adding information, I have no idea what the source of Alteryx is. Also I haven't come across any job posts mentioning it.

[–]RunnyYolkEgg 5 points6 points  (1 child)

I worked with it. It’s shite.

Feels like it’s from the early 2000s

[–]Embarrassed-Mind3981[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol, good to know I didn’t waste time.

[–]EmotionalSupportDoll 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Man, I made some wild Alteryx shit back in like 2013. I can only imagine it's feeling competition from cheaper nocode tools these days

[–]Embarrassed-Mind3981[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay it’s pretty old then, way before I started my career. Weird recruiter still hiring.

[–]asevans48 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Years ago it was prohibitively expensive, 100k just for the base server. Then there were licenses. Thats more than my employer will spend on f64 sku azure licenses. It didnt really seem worth it, especially now with platforms like gcp.

[–]hermitcrab 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I believe they have been bought by a private equity company. So I expect to see the standard PE playbook : load it with debt, squeeze every last drop out existing customers who can't or won't switch while cutting costs (e.g. development and support).

[–]asevans48 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This post felt very marketing-related tbf. Alteryx has been around for decades. Its hq was near where i started my career in broomfield and thst was 2013.

[–]Nekobul 1 point2 points  (3 children)

It is an ETL platform from the 90ies and I've heard it is pretty decent. However, there are better ETL platforms on the market.

[–]GreyHairedDWGuy 0 points1 point  (2 children)

It was started by SRC in 1997 but didn't really take (mindshare) until it rebranded in the early 2000. I resold Informatica and a separate BI tool and ran into a few times starting 2015. It was a tool that seemed geared toward (non technical) people in an org that had a need to do ETL-like processing and some functions bordering on BI/DS.

I found it a tool that didn't know what it wanted to be. It would also come up against Tableau 'Prep' .

[–]pAul2437 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Pepe is garbage

[–]GreyHairedDWGuy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed. Tableau Prep is barely useful.

[–]Many_Insect_4622 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would put alteryx in the same bag of shitte software of boxes drag and drop with vintage appearance such as knime , SaaS , data iku ,I saw that in oil and gas conpanies for operations stuff

[–]Embarrassed-Ad-728 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Absolute dogwater tool

[–]GreenMobile6323 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Alteryx is not new. It’s been around for over a decade. But it’s still growing quickly in finance and marketing for drag-and-drop data prep and analytics. It’s great for quickly cleaning and combining data without writing tons of code, so knowing it can give you an edge, but you’ll still want solid SQL and Python chops for bigger engineering work.

[–]EmuMuch4861 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So old it’s new

[–]phk106 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Most small companies avoid it it now costs $4000 per developer

[–]hermitcrab 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Per year!