Workday

Really enjoyed my experience with the company since joining in 2016 until recently. Lately, too much politicking has been happening around, and too many nice people started leaving.

Personally, I had good and bad managers (the company was growing, a lot of changes were happening), leading to good and bad experiences in the company. Still, I would recommend considering the company as a workplace, but be careful about who the manager is and what the team offers in terms of career and learning opportunities.

• If the manager is good, as everywhere, the overall experience with the company will be really good.
• Possibility to change positions/departments inside the company.
• Usually, management is supportive regarding learning opportunities.
• Flexibility (in my case, but not on the company level).
• Complex software, so it's challenging enough (but some monolithic parts of it are not so interesting to work on).
• Possibility to travel and collaborate with US-based teams.
• Multicultural environment and a lot of nice people.
• Volunteering opportunities.
• Good base pay + stocks.
• Good office space.

Inconsistency across the departments on remote work, WFH, and career development.

Really bad HR department in the Dublin office. All through tickets, even when urgent things are happening. Easier to search for help from colleagues as they are more responsive. No easy way to engage with HR when the situation requires it, as it's hard to find the right person even to ask. (Again, usually the response is 'Create a ticket'). No exit interview.

Core values are written, but the actions are not aligned lately.

Company is growing too fast, so a lot of toxic people came into the company and are destroying the prior really good workplace to be (sad).

Very unfair treatment in some departments around the company. For example, making people aim to 'be visible' to be promoted. I always thought it should be around contribution, quality of work, and etc. One of my managers, for example, was really arrogant, unprofessional, and did a lot of micromanaging. Others were from okay to great. In some teams, socializing after work influences your 'visibility' - very non-inclusive, I'd say, for certain categories of employees.

Company doesn't fire people; more like they make them leave. Those three who actually were fired (I assume they were) disappeared without a word. Which is really weird for me.

Slow delivery to production. It's kinda good everything is tested and etc., but annoying to wait half of a year or more to see something be delivered.

I'd suggest rethinking HR engagement as it's bad now. Tickets are frustrating and it's not the way you would want to search for advice or help.

As the company is growing so fast, pay attention to employee migration and do not allow some managers to destroy the company culture completely (as it's still there).