Associate Applications Developer Interview Experience - Pleasanton, California
Process
I met them at an info session and spoke with them at my university's career fair. I was asked to schedule an interview for the next school day during the career fair.
The on-campus interview was a 30-minute session, mostly covering background and one UML design question. I received a response that same night about the onsite interview!
I scheduled my accommodations and was able to choose between the following week or the week after for my interview. The onsite experience was a standard day, though the interviews themselves lasted only about 3 hours. The interviews focused on behavioral questions, problem-solving, previous projects, and more design questions.
After the interviews concluded, there were presentations, opportunities to speak with employees and new grad hires (Generation Workday), all while enjoying provided food, swag, and snacks. The day ended with a fun social event to play games and socialize with other interviewees. Shuttles were available to take us to the airport when the social ended.
This interview took place on a Friday, and I heard back by the following Tuesday.
I was truly impressed by the promptness of every step of the process, as I heard back sooner than expected in every instance. Furthermore, the recruiters were genuine, taking the time to truly get to know me and offer support.
What ultimately helped me decide to choose Workday was the feeling of being wanted from start to finish. This differed from all my other interview experiences. The people here genuinely seem happy and well taken care of.
Questions
UML diagrams: practice modeling any system and describing your design decisions (since there are always many ways to solve a design question).
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Success Rate
Workday's interview process for their Associate Applications Developer roles in Pleasanton, California is incredibly easy as the vast majority of engineers get an offer after going through it.
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Workday Work Experiences
- 2.0Built for the future, brought to you by the pastAssociate Applications Developer • Current EmployeePleasanton, California, United StatesNovember 9, 2015Pros: The Generation Workday program really does do its best to acclimate new grads into the workforce. It's an easy way to meet a lot of really cool people. Workday also tends to hire really honest, nice people as new hires. The snack program is fantastic.Cons: Make no mistake: Workday is PeopleSoft, PeopleSoft is Oracle, and, no matter how much they try to convince themselves, Workday is Oracle. There is zero career advancement at Workday, and it's designed that way. The management chain from the bottom-up is almost exclusively ex-Oracle, ex-PeopleSoft folk. Oracle employees are actively recruited for management or high-priority roles. There are very few people (to the point where I don't know any, but I've heard of them) who came into Workday in management positions. If you are not a PeopleSoft alumni, your chances of advancement are very, very slim. Internal transfers are slim-to-none despite the constant talks they give new hires about them occurring after their first 12 months. That would be fine and all if this is just a stop-gap in a career, but as an engineer, Workday has designed a tech-stack that essentially tries to ensure employment solely at Workday. It's all proprietary non-programming, and resembles nothing even remotely similar to programming. It's entirely useless for any future jobs. Don't buy into the "Well, there's a lot of similar ideas and principles with traditional programming languages" talk they give: it's nothing like programming. It's just clicking, and clicking, and more clicking. It makes things easy for them, and much harder for the worker, as it's extremely easy to become complacent and you forget traditional programming skills. Working at Workday is a dead end. If you're young and non-PeopleSoft, I cannot stress how important it is to stay far, far away.
- 1.0Great PR, Bad InternallyAssociate Applications Developer • Former EmployeePleasanton, California, United StatesOctober 10, 2015Pros: The company has done a great job in establishing its foothold in the industry.Cons: - Low compensation compared to industry standard. - Difficult to move across teams. - HR team is very difficult to work with; slow and all talk, no action. - Proprietary language makes it difficult for people to advance in careers. - Slow moving for teams with mature applications.
- 5.0Awesome workplaceAssociate Applications Developer • Former EmployeePleasanton, California, United StatesAugust 19, 2015Pros: Very employee-centric, fun company culture. Treats their interns very well. You learn a lot about OOP design.Cons: Uses their own proprietary language, XpressO, that you will never use at any other company, so a lot of knowledge is not transferable.
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