Workday

Great lifestyle. You get to learn a lot about the company, and even as an entry-level position, you are given respect. There is lots of new and interesting technology to learn. It has a steep learning curve, but once you get over that hump, it becomes easier to make new applications. Overall, a great company to work for. The company has lots of perks and great team outings. The company tries to maintain a happy and very comfortable atmosphere.

The technology used puts current employees into a pigeonhole. Software engineers are using a proprietary coding language developed by Workday. Everything is done in two specific, graph-like languages. If you stay too long in the company, your coding skills will get dull. Workday puts its employees in a comfort zone that can be good for some but bad for others trying to increase their knowledge in the coding and tech world.

My advice would be that if you join Workday's apps team, experience it for a year and either transfer to another group or look for something more challenging elsewhere.

Many will say there is no company politics, but from my personal experience, there is quite a bit. The company portrays an image of happiness and everything being great, but that creates more frustration for others because instead of stating problems upfront, issues and discomforts just get bottled up.

Lastly, the company encourages employees to seek out different groups within the company, but unfortunately, since each team I have seen has such limited resources, it can take up to two years before any kind of talk about moving occurs.

Make moving around and exploring different groups more accessible. Holding your engineers and not letting them explore will just make them want to do the opposite. Don't say that exploring opportunities is possible and then not let the engineer move if they are not interested in the group anymore.