Pros
TopBloc is an excellent Workday partner in the ecosystem to start your career as a Workday consultant. The organization has developed tools that accelerate tenant builds and further invests in product development to continue maximizing and shortening deployment timelines. With that said, timelines are often sold between 4-6 months (sometimes even less) for phase 1 projects; add to the fact that most consultants are staffed upwards on 10 projects and PMs on 5-6, resourcing is extremely thin in order to meet these fast deployment cycles, which leads to burnout, project fatigue, etc. Overall, the pros to TopBloc include the benefits package (employees pay $0 premiums with pretty decent plans), a 401k match (up to 2%) and, if you're looking to get a ton of project experience, this is the place for you!
Cons
In general, there has been quite the turnover in senior resources over Q1 of 2021. Senior consultants and project managers are exiting the organization due to a plethora of reasons, including: 1) resources are over allocation/stretched thin (see note in the pros section regarding # of projects for each type of delivery consultant) 2) there are inexperienced leaders driving the organization 3) lack of investment/coaching for management (senior consultants / PMs are often promoted as people managers, but do not receive management training (other than a quick 30 minute intro into 'you're a manager now') AND are still often billing 40+ hours, which means there is not time for them to support the team 4) greener team members join the organization (which is great to expand the ecosystem, however, formal training / mentorship is not provided, therefore, many resources are set up for failure) 5) HR sends wellness check/pulse surveys on a monthly basis (which, appears that they are curious and welcome to incorporating feedback), however, these surveys are explicitly issued through Workday. As a Workday certified company, resources are not comfortable submitting honest feedback in a tool that is not truly anonymous. Each month, employees ask if we can move to an anonymous tool, however, leadership declines. This 100% states that they do not care and/or does not want the honest truth.