I request ANY engineers to PLEASE AVOID this company for your own sanity. I am honestly saying this from personal experience of having wasted my time interviewing here.

The process:

• Phone screening
• 45-minute call with a manager
• Take-home coding challenge where they ask you to build a PRODUCTION-GRADE application in 9 days with styling, testing, state management, error handling, popups, loading, and much more.
• Pair-to-pair coding for 2 hours
• Cultural fit call
• Offer call

The interview process is LONG and winding. The biggest problem is the take-home exercise where they give you 9 days to build a production-grade application. Not only is that crazy (because we all know that it takes a lot of time to build a production-grade application with frontend testing), it's unnecessary to ask candidates to build a mini product just for the interview's sake.

I was unfortunately carried away by this, despite repeatedly reading so many negative comments here, and I foolishly agreed. Not only did I implement everything as per requirements in 4 full days, it was well-tested, and I built a lot more than what was asked.

After 3 days, they shared feedback that hardly matched my coding exercise. The feedback was absolutely incorrect and factually inaccurate. It clearly looked like it came from a junior team who had no idea what they were talking about.

Not only was the feedback factually inaccurate, but they also said that I did not complete the requirements when I clearly did (I wouldn't have submitted it otherwise). It clearly looked like they are stuck with old React patterns, stuck 4 years ago in their way of doing things, and had no idea about react-query, modern state management, modern error handling, etc.

All in all, it was very disappointing that I wasted my time doing a coding exercise for a company whose team did not even understand the code and was clearly junior enough to review it. The feedback was a complete waste of time. It clearly felt like they were looking to reject rather than hire, filled with an amateur team.

The ONLY positive aspect was the HR who bothered to call and share the feedback on call. She was willing to engage and force the team to give more feedback (they didn't give any meaningful feedback at all regarding the actual code itself, but she tried, and I appreciate her efforts).

Honestly, if you are an experienced developer who knows your game in React, uses a modern stack in React, knows good design patterns, and has worked for good companies before, then it looks like the Workday team was completely the opposite of all this.

On top of it, the feedback was so bad/incorrect and the code challenge was so damn big that it makes no sense for developers to go through it.

There are just so many companies where you can go through who would respect your time as a developer, have a practical interview/coding exercise process, and if something goes wrong, they would at least give you credible feedback using which you can improve and become a better engineer.

With Workday, except disappointment, you will not get much, and I honestly mean it.

DO NOT INTERVIEW HERE if you genuinely need a job.

Long take-home coding exercise to build a production-grade application in 9 days.

It includes testing, error handling, popups, styling, state management, scalable architecture, and much more.

Highly impractical for an interview.