Workday

• Generally great and friendly people.
• The company cares about the happiness of employees.

• Xpresso is the death of a career. Some internal initiatives are evidence of how unsuccessful Xpresso is and efforts to "revitalize" the language. Application developers hate it, and other engineers openly mock the language that developers have to use.

• Underpaid. Even after "market adjustments," application developers are underpaid compared to the industry standard. If you're going to make developers learn a new language and trap them in a poorly built construct, at least compensate them appropriately in return.

• There's no concept of exploring new technologies as an application developer. Sure, you can learn new technologies within Workday, but again, they're all Workday-specific and not transferable in any way. Workday only makes developers better for Workday, not in general.

Think about the line developers. Let us use and explore technologies that actually make us excited to build the product. Many of us love the product, but the vehicle by which we build it is so horrid that it ruins the experience of doing what we love most -- coding.