Pros: Management or the company gives employees very flexible working hours, as long as you get your stuff done. The company offers great benefits.

Cons: I cannot find any major cons so far.

Pros: Next to Facebook, Workday's IPO is the most exciting in Silicon Valley. Cutting-edge technology. The rate at which Workday can develop product is unbelievable, leaving our competition struggling to keep up. Vacation time was increased this year, and if the company hits its goals. Company meetings are fun; celebrities such as Captain Sully and Steve Young have attended in the past. We poke fun at our competition at the meetings, portraying SAP employees doing the goose step, and there is even artwork of Larry Ellison being flushed down a toilet at the company headquarters. Needless to say, product confidence is very high.

Cons: There is a lot of money at stake at Workday. Not only are the investments of our founders on the line, but several million dollars from famous Bay Area Tech funders and CEOs also have their money wrapped up in Workday. As a result, things have tightened up. Salaries haven't been raised in years, and stock is being guarded tightly. As it stands, the amount of work versus resources is stretched thin, and every overhead cost is scrutinized.

Pros: Good culture, fun co-workers. Great work-life balance. Stock is doing well, good ESPP plan, stock refreshers. The Generation Workday new grad program is a good way to make friends.

Cons: Workday’s app dev teams are the product engineering teams, and they build the app using a proprietary GUI-based language called Xpresso. The tools teams work on infrastructure, and they use traditional programming languages like Java and Scala. This review is about app dev only. Hate to say it, but working in Xpresso is a very bad career move for engineers coming straight out of college. Unless you are proactive and work on side projects or continue to learn in your free time, you will forget your traditional coding skills. You will also not be exposed to industry-standard practices and tools by working in a proprietary stack. If you ever decide to leave, you'll likely struggle to find a traditional coding job. Workday probably has good retention rates for app devs not because app devs don't want to leave, but because they can't leave. They tell you that you’ll still learn high-level concepts like design and OOP, but I don’t think it’s enough to make you a competent engineer. They also tell you that you can eventually transfer to a tools team, but it seems like you have to spend several years doing app dev first before you can switch. Also, I think the salary for app devs is below industry average.