Gets many things right, but Sales support needs an overhaul - Sales Workday Employee Review

3.0
Aug 21, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great product that can truly make a meaningful impact on the business operations of customers. The implemented product lives up to the hype...and there's a lot of hype about Workday. Very good training, tools, assets, and ongoing education if you have the time to leverage them. Marketing, particularly the field marketing organization, is very good and do an excellent job positioning the product.

Cons

Field Sales representatives, at least those that aren't based in Pleasanton, aren't provided anywhere near the resources they require to consistently run successful sales cycles. While reps are provided a fairly good customer engagement "playbook" and tools, they aren't provided enough resources (product demo support, RFP response support, etc.) to actually execute on the playbook effectively. It's not unlike having a good football coaching staff but not enough talented players to win as much as we could and should be. Those that are on the field are often exhausted. The lack of support and resources doesn't go unnoticed by prospective customers and reps have to constantly deliver news that frustrates the customer - it is not uncommon to have to ask for a meeting to take place 3-4 weeks out because there simply aren't enough resources to support customer requests. Enterprise Sales in a highly-competitive market is always going to be high-stress/intensity, but far too much of the stress is created from lack of resources and from fighting for the resources we do have. As a result, reps are left on their own to try to figure out ways to 'hack' together ways to support customer requirements and this leads to some quick burnout.

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

Peers/ co-workers, flexibility, genuine nice co-workers

Cons

Lack of integrity and honesty. Sr, Director visited SLC two months ago and held 1:1 meetings to find out what she can do better and tell her something she did know. It was all smoke and mirrors and a waste of travel budget as they laid us all off. Workday get your crap together. You let go of some amazing, knowledgeable individuals that could’ve been moved to other orgs/locations but instead you decided to hand them their walking papers.

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