Proprietary ecosystem does not work very well - Senior Applications Developer Workday Employee Review

3.0
Apr 24, 2020
Recommend
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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.

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5.0
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Pros

Great support from team, good work life balance, genuine people

Cons

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2.0
Jul 21, 2026
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Pros

The benefits are good, but morale has taken a hit. Many of the company’s most experienced and respected employees have left, and the turnover among long-tenured staff continues to be noticeably high.

Cons

Micromanagement is widespread, and many core processes no longer work effectively. Leadership appears more focused on optics than resolving the issues employees deal with every day. Feedback rarely leads to meaningful change, morale continues to decline, and workloads keep increasing without corresponding improvements to systems or support. The culture has shifted toward expecting employees to simply do more instead of fixing what’s broken.

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