Workday reviews

I've been around for a few years and here is the situation I ended up in. The technology I'm working on is very proprietary and getting outdated with every year. If I decide to look for another job ... it will be hard. So it will be hard for my manager. And probably for his manager. We all kinda stuck here. And the company knows that. The pay is below average and a lot of people are focused on job security. The managers are picking direct reports based on the personal loyalty, they manage up, they sabotage introducing data driven metrics, we keep adding more and more new projects and growing technical debts - you get the idea, right? Why don't I stand up and say something about it? Let's see ... If I tell my manager that he is not being efficient - I'll likely get fired. I can't really prove I do my job well because - remember, no metrics! If I go to HR - the same will happen. At this point so many managers are all interested in keeping status quo - no single individual can change anything. Why don't I just pack and leave? At some point I probably will. A lot of employees who have marketable skills have done it already. But if you're working on something like Xpresso - you're stuck. And if my manager sucks - why do I have to leave?

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), and 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!