Workday reviews

Working as a manager, I found it a difficult environment. My own manager set for me no goals or objectives, and yet when my end of probation came I was hung out to dry for not making any of the objectives I was not set. The upper management seems to me to be confused. The product is good, but a bit buggy, and we have frequent customer outages. As the company has grown, these outages have increased as the company has been slow to adopt high availability networks and systems, and so the stress is beginning to show in the workforce. There is also a feeling when discussing with other managers that the flexible working conditions are sometimes abused by those less motivated employees who frequently work from home, and leaving those in the office to prop them up.

Workday is not a good place to work if you carry a quota. Only about 15% of the sales people make their number and the other 85% are literally starving. Territories are so tight and the quotas are so high. There is a lot of finger pointing and political games. Workday is a mini Oracle. Also, it looks like the companies long term outlook is based on the success of their financial solution. It is a pretty good play for mid market companies that don't have complex accounting needs, but it won't ever scale to the enterprise and is only a fit for a few verticals.