mediocre engineering team built with lower tier college talents - Software Engineer Workiva Employee Review

1.0
Feb 10, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible working hour and environment. Management trys to make people feel good. Good benefits.

Cons

Engineering team are mostly from lower tier state universities, over hyped and over estimate themselves. Engineers are way over their head and think too high of themselves. Exaggerated tasks, minor features take ridiculous long time to deliver, and mostly in poor quality. They spend too much time to keep praising themselves for job well done without idea how other highly successful companies do their software. Too many (inexperienced) managers, keep promoting wrong people.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Jun 2, 2026
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Pros

Remote work and flexibility Size of company is great - not too big, not too small Great coworkers (aside from the leadership)

Cons

- Horrible psychological work environment. The senior leaders in my department were absolutely terrifying and incredibly nitpicky, rather than encouraging and supportive to their people. - Career growth is a joke at Workiva, and leaders make it clear by their actions (and at times, words) that it's not a priority. I remember sitting on a department call where my VP said, "Growth is not getting a promotion at Workiva," and the context in which she said it made it feel cold, patronizing, and disheartening. Departmental calls were often uncomfortable and totally deflating. - Extremely unrealistic and very subjective standards - No manager accountability - People constantly live in fear, but the work flexibility and "great place to work" facade keep employees stuck in a toxic loop - When they get the slightest whiff of unhappiness, they push you out. I've seen it time and time again (which then creates a toxic fear culture) - Constant gaslighting

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