No unified leadership, incompetence abounds in some key functions - Anonymous employee Workiva Employee Review

2.0
Mar 25, 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great place to start your career. Nice offices and fun coworkers.

Cons

Company has no unified leadership or executive function. Every Director / VP is operating in their own best interest and sometimes directly against the best interest of other departments. There is no long or short term executive planning function so no one is working toward the same goal. If you work under multiple executive functions this WILL haunt you as you’re often led in opposing directions. The chaos is necessary when trying to get a project off the ground, but 6 years post IPO it’s just become pathological. No signs of changing any time soon, which means they won’t be making any profit any time soon, either. That is not sustainable in times of recession. “HR” is incompetent, to say the least. Know your rights because they certainly don’t and hope you won’t look into them, either. Warning to job hunters: those “best of” workplace lists are meaningless. HR and marketing submit applications using whatever cherry picked info they want. As always, Workiva is much more concerned with appearances than reality.

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Pros

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Cons

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