Workday Reviews

Pros

The culture, the people, the culture and the work. Genuinly lives up to its name as one of the best places to work in Ireland

Cons

Very hard to find a negative to be fair.

Pros

- Good Culture - Good Benefits

Cons

- Poor Middle Management in FIN areas - No Internal Promotions

Pros

- Talented, international teams (Dublin office was split about 50:50 nationals/non-nationals when I was there) - The product is impressive, its also built in a way that is scalable so you avoid double work/things breaking etc.. - The package is great - compensation, RSUs, health insurance (dentists come on site) , office is on a luas line and inbetween Dublins 2 train stations, gym next to the office, nice canteen with free breakfast, snacks and drinks - Top quality hardware and software available to you - Internal trainers who run courses/workshops regularly, some you do as a team (the agile workshop) but you're free to sign up for anything you have an interest in really, and you get to meet people in other departments during these and find out more about what other teams do and how they operate - Possibility to change teams/roles/locations usually seems possible, as long as you give them enough notice they will try facilitate it for you - Teams are allowed experiment with what works best for them and everyones input seems valued e.g. if you want to use scrum/kanban, how you want to handle tech debt - Work/Life balance is exceptional (might not be as good if you work directly with clients as most of them are in US timezones, but if you have evening calls you can start later etc..)

Cons

- Since they use their own language, it can be frustrating at the start for more senior developers. After going through 5 weeks of bootcamp learning the language it can take a while to adapt before they feel theyre contributing the same way they were in a previous company. Not really a problem if you're in it for the long-term though. - On the flip side, it might be easier for a graduate or junior developer to pick up the language but if you plan on leaving and all/most of your experience is in Xpresso you might have less options (there are dev teams in workday who dont use xpresso, but these positions are obviously limited) - You work on 2 projects a year for the bi-annual releases, which can get a bit boring if your team is working in isolation on your project. Would be cool to set up additional smaller projects where you work with people from other teams one day a week on MVPing innovative ideas or something similar, but obviously product takes priority so not sure how feasible this could be

Pros

These are very subjective based on just a portion of the company, albeit a large one: engineering. - good deal of autonomy in picking what you work on within the boundaries of team/org goals/priorities (but see cons) - reasonably competitive pay at start - but it has to be, because the company is not seen as an attractive target by engineers on the market (also, see cons) - work-life balance is good, to very good but varies across teams - subsidised employee stock purchase programme - pension matching - health insurance coverage for the entire family on a good plan

Cons

- Poor location if you're commuting in from outside of Dublin City centre - lacklustre public transport, very limited parking spaces in the office, expensive on/off street parking. - Office-centric culture, with little love for remote work - No matter how hard you work, when it comes to promotions who you know trumps what you know and can deliver. - Pay is only competitive at the start - forget about pay reviews. Five years later you'll be on the same base pay. WD prefer giving people bonuses/top-ups in their volatile stock, with long vesting periods. - Constant employee surveys that lead to nothing. - One-way performance review system that leads to nothing. - Senior management in Engineering have no idea what they're doing - constant hires/fires/re-orgs that cause churn and chaos. - Lack of trust in what the engineers are doing, with changes/deployments being micromanaged to death. Anything to massage the "customer satisfaction" number to where it will look great on an earnings call. - The tech stack is old and boring (Ruby, Java EE), and a career dead end for many (GWT, XO, YP and other tech nobody else uses). Few teams get to work or experiment with more modern, or emerging tech. - WD position themselves as a technology company, but the reality is they most often consume off-shelf products just to fail at integrating them.There is very little in terms of innovation, or it's not promoted enough to be noticeable. It is not actively encouraged either. - The least agile company of "agile" companies I have worked for. You must love spending hours in meetings to do well here. Everything takes months, if not years.

Pros

Great product with lots to learn Fun culture Travel opportunities Amazing benefits

Cons

On call and weekend shifts but compensated well for

Pros

1. An excellent working environment with warm, humble and talented people 2. Management is supportive of the scrum teams and individual contributors. 3. Freedom and push to work on innovative/out of the box solutions 4. Tightly knit scrum teams with no boundaries between product, development and quality assurance make work fun and get rid of monolith processes. 5. Workday as a company is very focussed on employee well being with a great snack program, health & fitness schemes, mental wellness schemes. They even have a section in the office dedicated to "Wellness Center" 6. Senior developers in the org are open to new ideas/feedback/suggestions/criticism. They are helpful too.

Cons

No cons from me, I feel Workday Ireland is a great place to work One thing that some people may not like is developing in XpressO, but i think its a great language for the purpose.

Pros

Good salary and benefits, good culture and values, friendly management, nice and relaxed environment (including free foods and drinks), excellent work/life balance.

Cons

Proprietary technologies used to develop "the" application does not look as a good choice. Implications are in fact multiple, including the risk for developers to loose their skills about not only common programming languages, but also the entire ecosystem related to them. So not just a proprietary language but even the entire ecosystem. Developers cannot resell outside skills acquired.