That Workday description reads like the resumes one writes when desperate and the job search has expanded into totally unrelated professions.

I was gonna try to contradict you by looking up Workday’s multiple and showing that it is valued like an HR company, but holy smokes…

Their multiple is 105 lol

As someone with no experience with either of those two services, I read that description and had no idea what Workday does. So I thought, maybe their homepage will explain it better.

> Manage HR, finance, and all your AI agents. All in one place.

> Elevate the potential of your people and boost productivity across your organization with human-AI collaboration.

> Turn AI into ROI faster and deliver transformational outcomes driven by trust, agility, and data readiness you can rely on.

> 11,000+ organizations worldwide trust Workday.

Huh?

Sure, whatever, I'm not even surprised about them trying to cram AI buzzwords into every sentence, I'm used to that by now. But what's the deal with enterprise products having marketing which only makes sense to people who already use the product? Not a single sentence on their homepage explains what their product does.

Ok, let's assume I've heard about Workday and know it's a tool for HR. I want to evaluate it, so, naturally, I click the "HR solutions" link on their homepage, and get to yet another page full of buzzwords that does nothing to help me understand the service they offer.

I came here to say this. I was chuckling thinking that this is how I should write my LinkedIn intro.

Also, anyone who loves coming across Workday and friends (enemies) when applying for jobs?

I suppose all comes down to who runs the leading (or any) investment companies. Money people are not known to be technically literate enough for not being fooled by magic (any sufficiently advanced technology).

They are facinated by llms that they are pouring down money to AI related companies. Can you blame them? Can’t deny, I am also fascinated by llms.

If their product wasnt an absolute dumpster fire, id give em a pass.

One of the hardest problems with making a configurable Enterprise Software thing with a strong brand is figuring out how not to make every misconfiguration a reflection on the brand; there’s no Workday specific reason your configuration had to federate logout in this way.

In the same vein, I always thought it was a mistake that Workday branded the recruiting portal so strongly; everyone is furious that they can’t share an account across applications but it really makes sense. They’re supplying the Workday customer with their recruiting data / PII using Workday, not furnishing that data to Workday directly, so sharing across customers would require a whole legal and data tenancy refactoring.

(disclosure: I worked at Workday for a long time ages ago and people were certainly not living with their heads in the sand. I don’t think I particularly agree with the direction the company is going but it is always interesting to reflect on some of these threads and the challenges with running that kind of business)

This is probably done to invalidate your session token, which is required in some industries (see banks, logging you out after 5 minutes of inactivity).

The pay amounts also include any RSUs granted and NSOs sold.

It took many back and forths with my employer’s HR department and executives to get them to tell ADP to stop sending this info to Equifax (work number)

I have to assume the backoffice is phenomenal because nobody on the employee side ever has good things to say about it.

You don’t wanna wait 60 seconds, 3 times to submit PTO?

It is a bit like Jira in that it’s flexible for different company use cases, but most people (especially engineers) dislike working with it

i don't get it can you elaborate?

Last I used it, it was a plumbing game.

I’m pretty sure that’s just the obligatory reskin to ride the ai wave

well, see, you can send an event to an LLM and it can send an event back so it's an AI company now. I am an AI company, now, too.

Nango is an open-source alternative: https://nango.dev

Especially if you use pipedream for integrations in your agent or product.

(I’m one of the founders)

Try out https://composio.dev/ (disclosure - I work here)