8 engineers on Hacker News describe using Tableau first-hand: 2 endorse it, 1 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“Tableau was fast to stand up (the team already knew it) but never felt like our product.”
mixed · production · matthewhefferon · 2025-05-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Using Power BI and Tableau felt much more like working together to solve issues.”
endorse · personal · FranzFerdiNaN · 2021-09-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Qlikview, Tableau and Excel for years and they are all very limited in what they can do.”
regret · production · ninjamayo · 2016-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we switched to Tableau, which let us use our own db's instead of GD's terrible "logical data model"”
endorse · production · clintboxe · 2016-02-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“our holding company signed with Salesforce and we moved to Tableau.”
neutral · production · liotier · 2024-02-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The CSV files drive some Tableau dashboards through Athena.”
neutral · production · thesketh · 2022-04-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we tried a couple of different approaches: tableau reports, emailing static data to providers, sending spreadsheets of patient-level data”
neutral · production · reureu · 2021-08-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched to Tableau on the front end, and "old fashioned" ETL scripting in Python (now some Go) on the backend.”
neutral · production · bsg75 · 2016-02-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?