How are promotions handled at Workday?

CSD role is great in learning the foundation of sales, with exposure to complex deal cycles and an enterprise product. Many smart people to learn from and be mentored by, everyone is also lovely and there's a fun culture with regular clubs and activities. Everyone keen to help out.

Lack of promotion opportunities in the near future, becoming an AE is a longer process than other companies. This is getting fixed though with more pathways opening.

Cool office in London Moorgate

Lack of career growth and promotions within the team, very US centric culture

Still decent flexibility, ESPPs and decent annual leave.

When I joined workday originally I was struck by how loyal all of the employees were. People rarely left or moved to other companies and people were motivated to do their best and progress in their careers there. This has all changed in the last 2 years. Everyone is under constant fear of the next round of layoffs. Developers have been pigeon holed by working with a proprietary language. This was fine when there was job security but this is no more. There are cuts in every area from snacks to staff parties and Christmas gifts. These are all secondary things but a representation of the direction the company is heading. No one is guaranteed any RSUs anymore and this was what made our compensation competitive. Opportunities for progression and promotion are limited and competitive and every year we hear rumours of a “tight budget” because of the conveniently timed layoffs a few months before. Having decimated the QA org and putting even more work on developers, and even tighter timelines, we are under a ridiculous amount of pressure. How, as an XO developer, can I not feel stress at the idea that I might be let go at any moment and not be able to repay my mortgage? And having not worked with other employable technologies in years. All of this, and the share price has been slowly (and sometimes not so slowly) dwindling. Carl’s impact on the company has been detrimental and he has absolutely 0 regard for the thousands of employees in Workday. He may pretend to cry when he announces yet another round of layoffs, but he does not care one bit about the devastating effect this has on thousands of people and their families. The sooner they replace him the better - for both the share price and the employee experience.

Good culture,good people great benefits, high autonomy

New leadership, removal of benefits, force feeding AI, no upward mobility

Pay is good with the ability to grow your career out of school, leadership has been relatively stable over the years.

Focus is on revenue growth, customers are not always heard or have much of a voice to improve key product features, especially legacy parts of the application including business process framework and security. Career management over time can be a challenge getting stuck in a role with little to no horizontal or upward mobility.

Learn a lot and plenty of exposure to serious execs

Promotion opportunities are small or require relocation to London

Good salary, good nice office

Worst culture, less opportunities, less promotions,

Digital AE team has great leadership and amazing people Pay and benefits are competitive Great stepping stone into enterprise sales

They aren’t promoting out of the salt lake office and it doesn’t make any sense They’ve hired people out of this office and now there is no promotion path unless you’re willing to relocate Culture of workday is changing and isn’t as great as it used to be Since Aneel stepped back and Carl took over, things have gone downhill

Work life balance, great culture and people

Slow promotions \ career progressions

Work life balance, employee benefits, and great management

Slow promotion process for career growth