What It Does: Tableau specializes in data analytics, business intelligence, and data visualization. The company also specializes in data management.
Mission: Tableau’s mission statement is the creation of inclusive products that empower individuals.
Size and Presence: Tableau employs hundreds of workers in Canada. Its office is in Vancouver.
Best Known For: Tableau is widely recognized as an industry leader in the creation of software products. Tableau has been recognized as a leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for ten consecutive years. In the 2008 edition of the Software and Information Industry Association's Codie Awards, Tableau won Best Business Intelligence Solutions.
The Good Bits: The employee incentives are one of the best in the industry. The career prospects in this organization are exciting and rewarding. The work is collaborative and exciting.
The Not-So-Good Bits: The work can be challenging to employees without a background knowledge of how data works. The work can be hectic sometimes.
The company has a very young history that just clocked two decades this year. In 2003, Pat Hanrahan and two co-founders established Tableau. Ten years after its inception, the company had its IPO on the New York Stock Exchange. In 2004, the firm moved its headquarters to Freemont. In 2016, Tableau announced its plans to establish an auxiliary campus in Kirkland, Washington. That same year, Adam Selipsky succeeded Christian Chabot, one of the co-founders, as CEO of the firm. The following year in March, Tableau finished the construction of a new building in Wallingford for its headquarters.
In 2018, Tableau opened another building in Freemont. The company purchased Empirical Systems, an artificial intelligence startup, that same year. The rationale behind the acquisition was to integrate Empirical Systems technology into the company's systems. Shortly after the acquisition, Tableau announced plans to open an office in Cambridge. In mid-2019, Salesforce acquired Tableau. In 2021, Mark Nelson took over the office of CEO, succeeding Adam Selipsky.
The company's awesome culture has been instrumental in its high staff retention rate. Its core values include simplicity, beauty, discovery, respect, and authenticity. Tableau is a great employer because its working environment is designed to make it a homely space for employees to encourage productivity. The employees are friendly with each other, and the largest collaborative work provides an avenue for them to bond at work.
Tableau also hosts extra-curricular social events, enhancing unity and harmony among its workers. Freshers and interns don’t feel out of depth because their more experienced colleagues are there to welcome them warmly and help them adapt to life at Tableau. The environment is inclusive and accommodates diversity in race, religion, political affiliations, gender, sexuality, socioeconomic background, etc. The dress code is smart casual.
Tableau brings bright and enterprising interns and freshers on board, nurturing their potential to transform them into high-value employees. Its internship programs entail events, roundtables, and training incorporated into a schedule that will keep its participants busy and fulfilled. Through this program, they will gain valuable work experience and receive mentorship and guidance from some of the best and brightest minds in the industry. These participants also get to engage in team projects and assignments. They will contribute to the decision-making process and gain hands-on experience that will make them seasoned professionals at what they do.
Tableau collates its applications, reviews them, and subjects its applicants to an introductory interview, technical assessment, further interviews, and assessments before offering a job.
Tableau pays its fresh graduates and entry-level employees an average yearly salary of CA$ 65,000.
The company's employee incentives include free lunch, health insurance, a time-off policy, product discounts, life insurance, etc.
The Tableau Foundation donates free desktops to NGOs and non-profit organizations in Canada.