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Oh goodness, someone else who shares my irrational antipathy for Workday! Workday is such junk from a user facing perspective. It’s a huge pain to index conten
by cushychicken 3y ago
Oh goodness, someone else who shares my irrational antipathy for Workday!
Workday is such junk from a user facing perspective. It’s a huge pain to index content from. I have to omit a bunch of big semiconductor companies from my job site because it’s fucking impossible to get job data out of Workday.
If you work in talent at either NXP or Qualcomm, please God read this essay. You are actively harming your own recruiting prospects by using Workday!
I don’t have this problem at all with the more modern ATS’es - Lever, Greenhouse, and Workable all provide nice, easy to consume APIs for this.
- callalex 3y agoRunning a scraping aggregator and being an end user are not the same thing.
- pineconewarrior 3y agoWorkday is not great for applicants either. Maybe the back-end is nice?
- cushychicken 3y agoMaybe the back-end is nice? Lol I’m definitely swiping this next time I throw shade on a website XD
- aaronbrethorst 3y agoWorkday is awful from every angle.
- dmoy 3y agoYea, but companies will keep using it because offloading all HRMS to workday (or similar competitors) is cheaper than doing it all in house. (For companies of a sufficient size. Small enough and it's probably not worth it)
- artiscode 3y agoIt's just aa convoluted. I work for Workday. Having to re-enter your data each and every time is part of the enterprise tenant isolation model. There is no information sharing between tenants, especially PII. The UX suffers because of data privacy.
- CoastalCoder 3y agoCan you elaborate on the problems with Workday? I hear lots of antipathy about it, but the only problem I've personally noticed is (IIRC) it consistently mis-parses my PDF resume.
- candiddevmike 3y agoFor me, I refuse to create accounts when applying for jobs. Too much of a pain in the ass.
- tcmart14 3y agoOne of the biggest issues I've had, and I don't know how workday looks from their end, when it comes to entering in education and specifically degree. My degree says "Software Engineering," which I never see given in a list. So I usually just pick whatever is closest like "Computer Science," and I always wonder if there is a system that does some correlation between what it put in the box and on the resume.
- notsurenymore 3y agoI applied to company using workday recently. The job was a referral and the JD made it explicitly clear I didn’t need a degree. Yet it was a required field. And of course, it wasn’t a free form text field that would allow me to just enter N/A or my high school. It was a drop-down/search box that had a predefined list of colleges and universities. I ended up just entering some college I attended for two months before dropping out.
- tcmart14 3y agoI've also seen that too. The no-free-form entry sucks. I went to a pretty big public school, but for some reason it wasn't included in the pre-populated list on one job I was applying to. No clue what the company using it's controls look like, but I even checked over big name public universities to see if they were on the pre-populated list and it was surprising how many were missing. Like UNC (University of North Carolina) wasn't listed.
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- rdedev 3y agoWorkday is weird. It's a chore to apply but things like simplify jobs browser addon makes ituch better. That being said I have more luck getting a response from a workday application than greenhouse or lever. Maybe the harder pathway discourages spam applications
- datavirtue 3y agoI've gone through several workday apps in the last few days and found them all to be easy.
- rdedev 3y agoIt's easy but just mind numbing
- smnrchrds 3y agoWhich add-on is that? Do you happen to have a link?
- PascLeRasc 3y agoAlso, anyone know a way to automate undoing the all-capsing Workday does with resume data? Sometimes the data makes it to the correct field but it might as well not since I need to retype the whole thing anyway.
- rushils 3y agoHey! My company Simplify built a copilot for job seekers that helps with this. We’re also YC backed! https://simplify.jobs/copilot https://simplify.jobs/copilot
- chias 3y agoWorkday: At Least It's Not Oracle
- TheRealDunkirk 3y agoI have a friend who does HR & payroll database management for one of the largest health insurers. In the past couple of years, they've switched over to Workday from Peoplesoft. After 25 years with them, it's making my friend want to quit. It's that bad, from the inside too. Apparently, things that were routine in Peoplesoft are difficult in Workday, and things that were merely hard are simply impossible.