Workday

All the usual shiny perks of a Large Tech Company™.

Here's some of the inspiring messages you'll hear from leaders in the company, one-on-one:

"There's no place better than Workday." "Why would you ever want to leave Workday?" "Other companies are so much worse than Workday, let me tell you about a story from my time at Oracle...." (Oracle Transplants Abound) "Workday is the best place you'll ever get." "I don't care what you do, I only care about what you give to the team." "You cannot expect your manager to have your personal needs in mind; you are the only person who is responsible for yourself." "What, you don't want to help other coworkers? C'mon, speak." "Your five-year career plan can also include personal goals, like family planning." (Yes, this was a female employee this was said to. Yes, this was right when Roe v. Wade was dominating the airwaves.) "I can't handle the panic attacks anymore." "Do you ever cry in the parking lot before coming into the office?"

If you're not in the in-crowd, it is a terrible, lonely work experience. If you join a diversity group to try and find belonging, you also find a bunch of peers burnt out. Individual employees try to carry diversity initiatives with little-to-no support from the higher-ups.

Other coworkers will push back and cry about a "Wokeday Takeover," all while leadership is predominantly white men.

Technical and product vision is haphazard, as career directors use departments as promotion opportunities. For how much proprietary technology the entire company is built on, there is very little investment into it by leadership.

Company-wide initiatives will get hyped up for six months and then fade into obscurity for another eighteen. This wasn't as big of a deal years ago, but now they perform "quiet layoffs" that sit under the mandatory reporting minimum when a big re-org occurs.

The hectic nature of org structure also means transfers are much harder than in the past (keep a tally of how many internal reqs you apply to get nixxed mid-process).

Anyone with any past history of trauma or abuse needs to be extremely wary when interacting with anyone in leadership. Their culture and rhetoric takes advantage of trauma-altered minds, whether it's unintentional or not, and makes you feel like you can't do any better than where you currently are.

None, really. You got your promotions, didn't you?

Advice to Employees: Just know that you deserve to be happy.