Avoid if you have greater ambitions
Avoid if you have greater ambitions
- Unlimited PTO policy. Easy for engineers to take at least 5-6 weeks off a year.
- Dog-friendly office.
- Easy to coast by and collect paychecks.
- Close to Pleasanton BART.
- Most teams allow engineers to work from home once a week.
Workday is a great place to work if you live in the East Bay and value work/life balance highly. It's perfect for people with families that want an easy workload and lots of PTO. I never felt stressed to deliver on a deadline. It's easy to get stuck here since you barely feel like it's work.
- Abysmally low pay/salary compared to other tech companies in the Bay.
- Lack of motivated engineers due to low pay.
- Proprietary coding language not transferable to other companies.
- Promotion is mostly based on tenure, not accomplishment/talent.
- Located in Pleasanton.
- Snacks/drinks are of the cheapest quality and often run out.
If you're an engineer that aspires to leave Workday eventually, avoid at all costs. Working in a proprietary language 9-5 will severely diminish coding skills that other companies actually care about. Nowadays, there's a serious lack of drive when comparing engineers at Workday to other companies. Great engineers have been leaving in droves since last year. Good luck escaping when you've been pigeonholed into your role.
If you want to retain top (or even mediocre) talent, start paying employees more. Adopt newer technologies for development, testing, and QA. Move away from proprietary coding languages.
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