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What they do

Workday is a Fortune 500 company. It calls itself a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents. Aneel Bhusri and Dave Duffield founded it as a cloud application provider for HR and finance. Its products cover HR, financial management, planning, payroll, and contracts. It also builds AI agents, software that can carry out tasks, such as Sana.

What they value

• Employees first: a community of high performers who speak up respectfully.
• Deliver meaningful value to customers and commit to their success.
• Innovate with urgency, and make it safe to take risks and experiment.
• Earn trust: set clear expectations, measure results, and own outcomes.
• Work should be fun, with wins celebrated together.
• Profitability follows from living these values.

Where they hire

Of 386 Postings, 174 are in the US, mostly Pleasanton, California, and Reston, Virginia. Others are in Canada, Ireland, India (Pune), the UK, Australia, and Europe. Most roles are Flex: at least half of each quarter in the office or with customers. 37 are on site and 10 are remote. US Federal roles require US citizenship.

Teams and roles

Product development and engineering has the most Postings, 122 of 386. Professional services has 86, and field sales has 43.

• Engineering: software, site reliability (keeping services up), cloud, security, and machine learning engineers. Many are in Workday Government, which serves US federal agencies from Reston. Others build APIs (the ways programs talk to each other), AI agents, and analytics in Pleasanton, Dublin, Vancouver, and Pune.
• Professional services: functional, financial, and technical consultants who implement Workday products for customers, plus project managers.
• Sales: sales and business development representatives, account executives, and solution consultants.
• Also product management, customer support, GTM (go-to-market) operations, information systems, finance, and marketing.

What they look for

Senior engineering roles ask for 5 to 8+ years, API design, object-oriented design (a way of structuring code), and a degree in computer science or equivalent practice. Cloud roles ask for Terraform and Kubernetes, tools for setting up and running servers, and Go or Python. Some US Federal roles need a security clearance or the ability to get one. Consultants need 3 to 5+ years implementing business software such as Workday, SAP, or Oracle. Product managers need 6+ years. Sales development roles need 1+ year of experience with a degree, or 2+ years without one.