Pluspunten
It's a great product - there's no question. I wholeheartedly believe in the product, market fit, and some of the leaders here (COO is awesome!). Remote work was great and very flexible - 1 mental health day off each month and pretty great salaries (depending on your gender!).
Minpunten
Where to even begin? As a woman in the tech industry, I have never experienced more blatant sexism, gender pay inequality, and just all-out erraticism than I have when working at Workato. This is truly a boys club. The leadership team is almost entirely men and I’ve seen firsthand how they will belittle and degrade other women in leadership positions to act as assistants or to pass off tactical work. At the same time, they focus on “strategy” (which they clearly can’t agree on because GTM motions and decisions change almost weekly with little to no formal communication). For example, when preparing for an important company-wide sales event, I would try to project manage live content for sessions and facilitate dry-runs with presenters. Instead of being asked content-related questions, male leadership would ask me (the only woman in the room) where they were going to have dinner and if I could help arrange that. I was not an EA nor was I responsible for meals at this event. I would often be the only woman on sales deal reviews and completely ignored or discouraged from participating. The gender pay gap was horrible as well. I found out that a male counterpart of mine – same title, same team, hired within the same major city (San Francisco) – was making $70,000 (base pay) more than myself. This was also more than his female boss at the time (he was a Sr. Manager and she held a Director title). When this issue was brought to leadership and HR, the response was “we’re consulting with a gender pay equality firm” yet no action was taken to make the gap correct. The executive team knows these issues exist and they have chosen not actually to correct this issue for women employees. Moreover, Leadership treats HR as an accessory department and does not give it the actual time or investment it needs to support 1000 employees. In my time at Workato, we at max had only 4 HR representatives and some geographical regions operated with 0 HR presence for several months. They will consistently hire “strategic” roles (all of them men) yet will not offer raises or support for mid-level employees (mostly women) who have actually been building and producing great work.
