Workday management made significant layoffs in Prague, about 45% of people were laid off in 2025, mostly recent hires.
R&D of People Analytics, the principal product developed in Prague has been expanding into India in 2025 just after layoffs, which is a typical red flag and could mean the company wants to outsource all of it eventually to India with proper knowledge transfer which cannot take place in an instant. Any new hire risks being hired just to keep the lights on for the transfer.
Numerous people left the company who were not impacted by layoffs as they stopped believing in management. Even engineering director left.
Much of the technical aspects of People Analytics are Workday specific and will not be relevant for your next job. The solution is quite convoluted with a lot of unused dead code that should have been removed many years ago. Do not expect any revolution or make a significant contribution to get a promotion. After the layoffs it's a keep the lights on type of project.
This company managed to trick a big number of skilled engineers into joining it, laying them all off after a few months or a year for more lucky ones. This will very negatively reflect on their CVs and careers. Workday Prague has no reputation left.
Workday values is a lie, the company is just looking to exploit your knowledge and dump you when no longer needed, same as other companies.
If you are considering joining Workday Prague, seriously consider what happened to previous new joiners and whether a project with risk of being moved to India is worth joining.
