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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 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.

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Workday 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

I've gone through several workday apps in the last few days and found them all to be easy.

It's easy but just mind numbing

Which add-on is that? Do you happen to have a link?

https://simplify.jobs/

This is the site I mentioned. They provide an addon for auto filling workday applications

Thank you!

Running a scraping aggregator and being an end user are not the same thing.

Workday is not great for applicants either. Maybe the back-end is nice?

It'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.

Maybe the back-end is nice?

Lol I’m definitely swiping this next time I throw shade on a website XD

Workday is awful from every angle.

Yea, 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)

I 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.

Can 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.

One 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.

I 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.

I'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.

For me, I refuse to create accounts when applying for jobs. Too much of a pain in the ass.

Yeah, they get what they get from the parser. The good resume is uploaded anyway.

Also, 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.

Hey! My company Simplify built a copilot for job seekers that helps with this. We’re also YC backed!

https://simplify.jobs/copilot

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