Associate Applications Developer Interview Experience
March 14, 2015
Neutral ExperienceGot Offer
Process
I went to a college job fair and talked to one of the recruiting teams. Unfortunately, I did not hear back from the team I talked with. However, my friend who works there referred me to all positions.
Four weeks later, I got an email saying they were reviewing my application.
A day later, I received an email asking me to contact them to see if I was available for a phone interview.
I had a 30-minute phone interview a few days later. The interviewer was extremely nice, and we connected pretty well. He asked me about background information, my resume, and my projects. He also asked me if I had experience in Java and knew about OOP and UML.
That following week, I got a follow-up from my recruiter.
Questions
UML Design Question
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 33 interview experiences for the Workday Associate Applications Developer role in United States.
Success Rate
64%
Pass Rate
Workday's interview process for their Associate Applications Developer roles in the United States is on the easier side as most engineers get an offer after going through it.
Experience Rating
Positive82%
Neutral12%
Negative6%
Candidates reported having very good feelings for Workday's Associate Applications Developer interview process in United States.
Workday Work Experiences
1.0
Great PR, Bad Internally
Associate Applications Developer • Former Employee
Pleasanton, California, United States
October 10, 2015
Pros: 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.
1.0
Good place if you don't care about your future
Associate Applications Developer • Current Employee
April 29, 2016
Pros: "culture" at an inconvenient location: Pleasanton.
Cons: Learn their language and be stuck here forever.
Become friends with your manager or stay associate forever.
Run.
Jump ship.
2.0
Built for the future, brought to you by the past
Associate Applications Developer • Current Employee
Pleasanton, California, United States
November 9, 2015
Pros: 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.
- 1.0Good place if you don't care about your futureAssociate Applications Developer • Current EmployeeApril 29, 2016Pros: "culture" at an inconvenient location: Pleasanton.Cons: Learn their language and be stuck here forever. Become friends with your manager or stay associate forever. Run. Jump ship.
- 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.
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