Workday

Workday is a great company if you want to be a cog in a giant machine, churning out code and making the big bucks. I'll admit, I think Workday is one of the higher paying companies in the East Bay at the moment. You may even climb the ranks, fast, if you're interested in constant politicking and back-scratching. But if you want a company where voices are heard and personality is valued, this isn't the company for you.

I'm going to preface this by saying that I've been an employee of Workday for 4+ years.

I've had close to 10 managers, been on many distinct teams, and grown with Workday through numerous reorgs.

Workday is vastly different now than when I first joined. It is no longer a "startup" culture, but recruiters or hiring managers will try to convince you otherwise.

They'll say we're a successful company but without the bureaucracy of large corporate culture. I don't know if they've regurgitated that line so many times that they're starting to believe it themselves?

Truth is, Workday is definitely a large company with many micro-cultures and so much bureaucracy.

Your experience at this company will vary from team to team; it will be entirely dependent on your manager.

And internal transfers are hard. With internal transfers, they will try at any cost to chip at your salary since they are certainly not going to compete against themselves (and trust me, I've been a part of many internal transfers).

I'm not comfortable disclosing what team I work on, but let's just say my team has hemorrhaged an astounding number of developers and QA. Let's just say we've lost more developers than the number of fingers on both your hands in the past year alone, and we've lost 80% of our QA.

The only answer management has for us is that there's nothing wrong.

That said, I've been on awesome teams prior to this, in Workday. It all depends on management.

I hope this helps!