proprietary technology and siloed - Principal Software Engineer Workday Employee Review

3.0
May 9, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Culture, benefits, "unlimited" time off

Cons

proprietary technology. While backend is mostly industry standard, it's extremely abstracted. As a developer you will be writing software by pointing and clicking. New grads and mid career engineers, be aware the tech industry is aware of this and no that you likely don't have professional experiance in latest technology. While the company is indeed diverse, literaly only on the surface by race. Ideas, beliefs, and politics are homogeneous. The two recent layoffs in the wake of Covid pandemic and other headwinds were macro economic events. I don't fault Carl Eschenbach or the leadership for making a decision no one wanted to make.

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Workday Response
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We truly appreciate you taking the time to offer your feedback. At our core, we believe in the importance of looking after our Workmates, and this remains a foundational value for us. Your perspectives are invaluable to us. Thank you.

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Cons

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Great culture at the peer to peer level. Excellent learning opportunities, good benefits and great name for resume.

Cons

Pretend to be transparent but a lot of smoke & mirrors. Significant cuts to comp plans & commissions that resulted in challenging pay cuts. While salaries were not reduced the OTE is no longer achievable and it’s a difference of thousands monthly, can’t even sell stock because it’s tanked. That being said, we’re disappointed in comp and stock but grateful to be employed because It’s no longer a matter of if you’ll be laid off but when.

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