Pros
It's ahead of the competitors. The old technologies from 10 years ago are getting paid off now. The finance team did incredible job of converting all hopes into high stock price. Reasonable work hours. Nice offices. Yes, free snacks!!!
Kontras
When Workday was founded 11 years ago, the technology was revolutionary. In-memory storage, NoSQL, Xpresso - those and other things were way ahead of it's time. Workday added a great UI and customer support and produced an amazing HCM product which was a great success - and still is! Unfortunately, 11 years later that technology still sells, but it's showing it's age. Some, like in-memory storage , are no longer unique. Others, like Xpresso language - they've become more a liability rather than an asset. Workday had it's days when it was bringing disruptive changes to the industry but now it can't adapt to the latest challenges it's facing itself. More and more projects end up in stalemates when the powerful old timers (the self proclaimed "guardians of the code") block the new ideas (maybe the fact Workday is using very proprietary technologies like Xpresso with no jobs outside of Workday has something to do with that) and the new people have no power to push the changes through. It results in a lot of politics and turf wars. The company keeps hiring more people and it doesn't help at all and just slows everything down further. The compensation is below market (thanks to the stock price been stuck for years). Also, it's ironic how bad the HR department is giving Workday is a major payer in HR industry. I'd say Workday is doing good job on monetizing it's cash cow HCM app and it's going to be able to milk some cash out of it for years to come. But Workday future is getting cloudy as the internal conflicts heating up, the ability to innovate slows and the morale is sinking.
