Workday Engineer reviews

3.4

53% would recommend to a friend

(13 total reviews)
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Aneel Bhusri

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55% positive business outlook

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13 reviews
3.0
Jan 2, 2019
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Pros

* Company really cares about employees' well-being * Jerky managers are counseled out * Psychologically safe * Company is currently successful * Traditional top-down hierarchy works great for sales, operations

Cons

* Heavy hierarchy kills innovation * Internal innovation success has been mixed * Failure has lead to costly acquisitions, team displacement * The few teams that enjoy autonomy often build useless, buzzword-heavy toys to pad their resumes

3.0
Nov 7, 2017

Was a great company...

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Pros

- Market leader in its core business - Wonderful products. Customers love it ! - Great team mates - Good work/life balance - Stock price at 105 ! - helps weather the pain ! - Interesting work ( if you know the right people ) - Great location ( new BART and 580/680 interchange ) - Some managers genuinely care about their teams and stand up against upper management whims. Of course some get cut down and leave as they can't take it anymore, others just submit to the dictates meekly and survive even when they know it is the wrong thing

Cons

- Was a great company - pre IPO and couple of years after that - Culture is going down the drain with new management in Tools. Apps is still alright. - Apps have a different issue with proprietary technology. - Have to know how to suck up to upper management (read long-timers) to get ahead. Or else you are stuck or ignored. - Senior management is afraid to talk to executive management about issues as it might be taken in a wrong way. Just drink the kool-aid and all will be fine. - Yessir attitude gets you promoted ..pretty quick - So called Sr. Principal Engineers are there as they know they cant find a job elsewhere with their skillset and attitude. The smart ones have jumped ship.

1.0
Apr 29, 2017
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Pros

* The employee perks are very nice. * The compensation is competitive. * Work / life balance is good.

Cons

Here is what Workday supposedly stands for according to their website: "Our core values give us a framework for leadership and daily decisions, and help us enjoy our time at work." "Most fundamentally, people are the core of our business. Without them, we would not have a business. We hire the best and expect great accomplishments." "Every investment and decision we make has our customers in mind, and we pull out all stops to make the satisfaction of our customers paramount." "We say what we mean, and mean what we say. We stick to our commitments, treat everyone equitably, and communicate openly and honestly." Unfortunately, absolutely none of this is true. For one thing, there are way too many managers and they only seem to care about what they are told to do (from other managers). They don't take advice nor do they listen to the people that make the company go. The company has lost sight of what's important. It's only a matter of time before the internal failures start to break down causing degradation of customer satisfaction. This in turn will be what causes Workday's eventual demise. If you want to go to a place where your opinion doesn't matter. If you want to be at a place where you work your tail off without any recognition. If you are a YES SIR and YES MAM person. If you want to go to a place where the internal workings change from day to day and nobody seems to know what's right or wrong from day to day. If you enjoy finger pointing and blame. If you want to work under the bad management. If you enjoy being called out for mistakes and not being recognized for the things you do right. Then Workday IS the place for you! But if you want great leadership, people who listen and respect you and believe in team work, I'd recommend going somewhere else where they will actually appreciate you.

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