Bureaucracy to the extreme - Senior Software Developer Dayforce Employee Review

1.0
7 May 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Excellent support for Work From Home even before Covid

Cons

1) A large company that is completely out of touch with modern development practices. 2) No concept of agile with all "requirements" living within a single wiki document with insufficient details to actually build anything. Tickets are constantly single line descriptions often along the lines of "just do what this other team did" 3) Team structure is extremely siloed with no communication between teams and no technical documentation to allow for sharing of knowledge. 4) They are attempting to create cross functional teams but continue to silo developers with specialization (complete with separate sprint boards, backlogs, and goals) resulting with poor communication even within the team. 5) Any attempt to suggest changes or allow a team to properly self organize results constant resistance and if you push and idea through if often ends up requiring a committee of managers to modify the idea so completely that it loses all effectiveness 6) Benefits package is subpar especially when it comes to the health benefits to the point that you have to pay extra via deductions in order to bring it even close to levels I have experienced at much smaller startups 7) The quality of developers you will work with is questionable at best with many of them pushing to do the absolute minimum in order to be able to call a project complete 8) Yearly bonuses are tied to project completion to the point that many of the developers have completely lost interest in building and maintaining a quality product and only care about completing the project on time/early. 9) First place where I have ever seen a developer argue that copying and pasting code into multiple files and attempting to modify the 3 values that differ between them is the better option that building an extendable system 10) expect to be invited to dozens of company wide meetings that chew up a ton of time and accomplish very little. I literally have been in 3 all hands meetings in 3 weeks. 11) Your email will be spammed to death with constant emails from every other developer asking for help on fixing the constantly breaking development environments (for environments that you don't work on)

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5.0
19 Jan 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Dayforce has a lot of great perks. They are a cutting-edge HCM company and are always innovating. They are 100% remote and are great with work-life balance. Pay and benefits are good, and I would put them slightly above average in both.

Cons

Work can be too siloed at times, and top-down plans are not always communicated as efficiently as they could be.

4.0
2 Apr 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits, flexible time off, inclusivity (mostly), diverse team members. Once the team has settled from an unexpected personnel shift, work/life balance resumes. DF is really good at work/life balance.

Cons

The diversity sometimes seems like it is for show. By diversity I mean not only gender and race, but also disability. By the time you get one manager to understand your work style they play "musical managers" and you have to convince a new one that you need to be treated as an individual and not a number. And the layoffs, every February like clockwork, and they are immediate and without warning. It is best to keep your resume warm while working here.

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