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Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.
The interviewer would like your thoughts on being paid based on work performance versus being compensated solely on years of experience. This could pertain to how you feel you should be compensated, and they will use your answer to gauge what kind of performance you may deliver. It could also pertain to what you value in your employees from a leadership perspective. Regardless, you always want to be as informed on Workday's value rather than risking expressing views that are in stark contrast to theirs. They are looking for a good fit, after all.

Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.
"I feel that employees should be paid and rewarded based on their performance. A new employee will find motivation in being rewarded for performance, and it encourages healthy competition with tenured employees."

Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.
"As a manager of people myself, I feel that performance and experience should be weighted when deciding compensation, pay increases, and promotions. You want to ensure that you compensate your highest performers appropriately but that their growth is stable and manageable in the long term."

Sue is a Recruiter and Talent Sourcer with over 13 years of experience sourcing and interviewing candidates for a variety of roles and industries, including Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Financial, e-Commerce. She
Workday was named one of the 100 Best Workplaces for Millennials according to Great Place to Work and FORTUNE. As millennial employees continue to dominate the work scene, more and more employees are requesting compensation based on delivered results. Workday may not always require a degree, as they place great value on job experience, displays of expertise, and even self-taught knowledge. Also, when you spend time reading through their Code of conduct, you'll find it says, "We compensate our employees fairly to help ensure that basic needs may be met and provide our employees with opportunities to develop their knowledge, skills, and abilities. We hire, compensate, promote, discipline, and provide other conditions of employment based solely on an individual's qualifications and performance. We do not discriminate, at any level of Workday, on the basis of protected characteristics."

Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
"I don't believe someone who puts in the bare minimum should be compensated equally simply due to tenure. I believe in a meritocracy as long as it is balanced. Everyone is in charge of their own development, so long as they're being developed to their full potential and given guidance and feedback on the skills they should focus on developing. If a member of the team has been given every opportunity to grow, I believe they should be compensated based on their performance."

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Employees strive to work hard to accomplish their goals and the company goals every quarter and every year. To me, rewarding employee/s is one of the key performance indicators of any company because it shows how the company is growing and how its employees are growing as well. Yes, in short, I do feel it's important to reward employees based on their tenure.
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Nice! Your response shows that you believe it's important that employees be rewarded by their employers. While you say, however, that you think experience (tenure) should be rewarded over performance, you don't support this preference. Consider talking more about how employees with lots of experience bring know-how and valuable knowledge to the table. Also, rewarding experience is one way to encourage employee loyalty (which can reduce turnover). Make sure to support your opinion so the interviewer understands where you're coming from. Great job!
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