An Insight into a Career in Software Development

An Insight into a Career in Software Development gradireland 2016

What do you look for from a Graduate employer?

Who are Workday? Cloud applications for HR and Finance

Workday in Dublin European Hub with 650+ employees …. and GROWING!

Self Organizing Teams Awesome Products Cutting Edge Technologies What We Do At Workday? Highly Collaborative Ideas are Encouraged We Have Fun : -) WORKDAY CONFIDENTIAL

Some of the tools & stack used @ Workday Xpress. O WORKDAY CONFIDENTIAL

Generation Workday • • • Career Development Soft-skills trainings Build your Network …. . And a few social events along the way WORKDAY CONFIDENTIAL

Meet Aoife ▪ 2016 Graduate - Computer Applications in DCU ▪ Interned as a Junior Product Developer – at a much smaller company than Workday ▪ Heard about Workday from a friend in college and it came highly recommended ▪ I joined Workday in July of this year ▪ I am on the Learning team, whose global development was lead by the Dublin team.

Why Workday? ▪ Company growth and Job security ▪ Career progression ▪ Managers focused on career paths ▪ The people - friendliness, helpfulness, etc ▪ The Generation Workday program training, support, networking opportunities ▪ Travel opportunities

The Work is Great…. ▪ Hands on Training ▪ Responsibility ▪ Team Support ▪ Agile Environment ▪ Regular one-to-one meetings

. . . The Play is Even Better ▪ Top floor is our recreation area – – – City Views Pool table Ping pong table Xbox Free snacks ▪ Regular events and nights out…Especially as a GW WORKDAY CONFIDENTIAL

Is Mise - Aidan Foley ▪ Graduate of NUI Maynooth –Computer Science & Software Engineering ▪ Prior to Workday - Software Engineer @ –Currency. Fair –D&B –Sentenial ▪ Why I joined Workday –Continuous Delivery at scale –Agile environment –Single Code Line –Location!!! WORKDAY CONFIDENTIAL

Starting a New Job… WORKDAY CONFIDENTIAL

If I had a Time Machine. . . WORKDAY CONFIDENTIAL

If I had a Time Machine. . . ▪ No one language to rule them all. ▪ Coding is collaborative, even with people you never meet. ▪ Failure is not a bad thing. ▪ You will spend more time testing than coding. ▪ Learn as many Design Patterns as possible.

Starting a New Job in Workday….

Xpress. O ▪ Proprietary language built by Workday. ▪ Object Orientated, using same principles and paradigms as any other OO language. ▪ Metadata Driven. ▪ Allows developers to focus on building business applications in new, different, and creative ways. ▪ Developers become excellent model designers WORKDAY CONFIDENTIAL

Xpress. O Framework (Spring) SDK WORKDAY CONFIDENTIAL

How we Build - Continuous Delivery WORKDAY CONFIDENTIAL

Single Code Line WORKDAY CONFIDENTIAL

Continuous Delivery – Toggling in Workday - Level of Granularity - Enable/Disable Features - Conversions WORKDAY CONFIDENTIAL

It’s Your Career! ▪ When choosing a job think: – Is this role going to satisfy me and what I want to do? – Is this company going to give me room to grow? – Is there the support to allow me to do this? – Will I enjoy doing this job every day? – Is the company a place where I will want to get up out of bed and come to work everyday? WORKDAY CONFIDENTIAL

The Interview…. . ▪ Tech interview – OO concepts – White boarding – UML – Previous Projects ▪ Manager Interview – Competency questions – Extra-Curricular Activities and Hobbies ▪ 360 degree interviewing ▪ Two-way process

It’s Your Career! WORKDAY CONFIDENTIAL

Make an Impact Everyday…Workday is Hiring!! ● Application Developer ● Software Engineers ● UI and UX Engineer ● QA Engineers - Financials ● Operations Center Engineer ● Support Analysts ● Product Managers ● Lifecycle Deployment Analyst ● Technical Writer ● Sales Apply now online workday. com/dublincareers

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