Workday to acquire Pipedream
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·November 20, 2025afavour
Esophagus4
I was gonna try to contradict you by looking up Workday’s multiple and showing that it is valued like an HR company, but holy smokes…
Their multiple is 105 lol
gomoboo
That Workday description reads like the resumes one writes when desperate and the job search has expanded into totally unrelated professions.
chanux
I came here to say this. I was chuckling thinking that this is how I should write my LinkedIn intro.
Also, anyone who loves coming across Workday and friends (enemies) when applying for jobs?
fsniper
I suppose all comes down to who runs the leading (or any) investment companies. Money people are not known to be technically literate enough for not being fooled by magic (any sufficiently advanced technology).
They are facinated by llms that they are pouring down money to AI related companies. Can you blame them? Can’t deny, I am also fascinated by llms.
afavour
> They are facinated by llms that they are pouring down money to AI related companies. Can you blame them? Can’t deny, I am also fascinated by llms.
I don’t think they’re fascinated by LLMs in the way the average Hacker News user is. They are fascinated by the pipedream (intended) of LLMs enabling them to lay off masses of workers and having AI do the work instead. It fascinates them the same way offshoring has fascinated them for years.
fsniper
> They are fascinated by the pipedream (intended) of LLMs enabling them to lay off masses of workers and having AI do the work instead
I am not fascinated by that part, I am honestly scared for my future.
rustystump
If their product wasnt an absolute dumpster fire, id give em a pass.
dustyharddrive
Great news for this site's most prolific spammer!
haolez
My company uses Workday. It is integrated with our EntraID SSO. If you leave a tab open for a few minutes, it will close your session automatically, which means logging you out of Microsoft 365 altogether. Simply bizarre. Maybe more AI will help them.
bri3d
One of the hardest problems with making a configurable Enterprise Software thing with a strong brand is figuring out how not to make every misconfiguration a reflection on the brand; there’s no Workday specific reason your configuration had to federate logout in this way.
In the same vein, I always thought it was a mistake that Workday branded the recruiting portal so strongly; everyone is furious that they can’t share an account across applications but it really makes sense. They’re supplying the Workday customer with their recruiting data / PII using Workday, not furnishing that data to Workday directly, so sharing across customers would require a whole legal and data tenancy refactoring.
(disclosure: I worked at Workday for a long time ages ago and people were certainly not living with their heads in the sand. I don’t think I particularly agree with the direction the company is going but it is always interesting to reflect on some of these threads and the challenges with running that kind of business)
mk89
This is probably done to invalidate your session token, which is required in some industries (see banks, logging you out after 5 minutes of inactivity).
pbw
Workday is a disaster, at least the version we have.
kobelb
You don’t wanna wait 60 seconds, 3 times to submit PTO?
chanux
The other day my friend ranted to me how he hates their company system for applying for PTO. Since he said he only uses it to apply for PTO, I was wondering if it really deserves that much wrath.
I think I now understand.
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geoffbp
It is a bit like Jira in that it’s flexible for different company use cases, but most people (especially engineers) dislike working with it
mk89
For me it's just incomplete. We used to have Successfactors and although the UI was less fancy, I have the feeling it was more complete and thorough.
After so many years with Workday I still cannot sync my calendar to outlook365, so I need to manually put the entries. A problem solved a million years ago in successfactors.
xgulfie
> Pipedream is a platform for building AI agents
It is? Last I used it, it was a serverless event-driven pipeline platform
mjhagen
Last I used it, it was a plumbing game.
namegulf
Got confused first reading the title of this post (thought someone joking about a pipedream)
This is interesting acquisition, a integration platform to boost their AI offering.
> Workday, Inc. (NASDAQ: WDAY), the enterprise AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Pipedream, a leading integration platform for AI agents
Pipedream indeed!
It blows my mind that every company has decided to call itself an “AI platform” but it blows my mind even more that the stock market apparently believes them when they say it. Workday was an HR platform five years ago. It still an HR platform today.