Workday

• Great benefits
• Clear and apparent advancement opportunities
• Supportive leadership offering mentorship where appropriate
• Flexible, understanding working environment
• Clean, modular codebase
• Willingness to listen to newcomers' ideas

• Too much training.
• Not enough pressure to push yourself.
• Social events and startup attitude seem forced for such a large company.
• App development platform is very slow and cumbersome to use.

While I think they have created an excellent product and a great place to work, they are underutilizing their engineering staff. This obviously affects different people differently, but there is no real pressure to push yourself. This is a severe mismanagement of the high-potential talent. At best, it leads to suboptimal performance; at worst, it leads to boredom and loss of talent.

Also, the training is far too cushy and extensive. Research has demonstrated time and time again the superior effectiveness of on-the-job training, but Workday instead forces employees to attend