I had to use Monday at a company I worked at and absolutely hated it. It's just a program for managerial types, basically the 2020s equivalent of yesteryear's timesheets. The biggest problem with this software is that it requires workers (the people who actually make stuff and do stuff) to use software to input for the benefit of their managers. That's all. It's double work, and it benefits managers. After using it a few years I became so over the whole program, it's just corporate bloatware.
I work for a small division of a massive company and they have a corporate contract with salesforce so that mostly. Couple of slack workflows for internal things.
Ah. I work for an engineering company, and we half use it for managing our list of machines we're working on. Absolutely hate it, because if you want to use it properly every team member needs their own license and naturally the company won't pay for that.
Almost all corporate software is a grift. Lie to management and say it'll fix everything, only to hold them in a contract, fix like one actual concern, and let the obscene amount of money roll in.
Yeah it sucks. So bloated and requires so much attention. You need a person handling it as a full time job. A shared spreadsheet on something like Google Sheets is a lot better for most cases I can think of.
The PE firm that bought my last employer mandated use of Monday and it was awful. I had excel and google sheets that were far superior and less clunky than their shite program. 0/10 would not recommend
This. It’s glorified micromanagement. It’s tech meant to make it easier for middle managers to micromanage every single day you have.
I had one job who used it and it just added an hour of work each day while we filled out what we did on specific projects each day. I eventually just stopped using it and ignored the warnings I got. Then I left for a better job.
That's exactly what it ended up being for us. Our designers and engineers had to fill out time sheets and project sheets, stuff that PMs should be keeping track of, but didn't. It was like a crutch for useless managers and the work just gets put on the actual producers.
Ownership and others liked it because it showed them how to scope and bill projects in the future, but I don't think anyone ever took into account all the cost that went into the people who filled it out at the behest of actual billable work and deliverables. On top of that, managers spent more time reminding everyone to fill in their project sheets than doing anything productive themselves. Corporate America.
I started my own company and we all use Slack for managing projects, it's so much simpler and more robust than Monday for our workflow. Nowadays I would look at any company that uses Monday and question the quality of their output.
I used to teach Excel and loved it. I make spreadsheets in it for fun.
These Monday c*nts used to run ads on my YouTube feed all the time 'are you tired of those annoying Excel spreadsheets? Use monday.com!'.
No.. I fucking don't... Drives me crazy.
Yep, you get to do the work and spend ~1.5hrs figuring out how to tick all the boxes so that the PM can yell at you for not having all your tasks done.
pro tip, you should have your proj manager or scrum master have the license of Monday and force them to check the boxes for you. It will reduce the overall level of bullshit you experience.
we use it where I work now (in IT). we use it for project tracking, inventory, tasking, issue tracking, meeting notes, and general notes. but i will agree that yes, it is just excel on steroids.
I do like being able to create a small spreadsheet that we can email out a link to hiring managers, and when they answer the questions it pre-fills the monday sheet, its made onboarding extremely easier (and a good CYA for when they say something wasnt set up right).
Same, and it’s also extremely expensive for what is on offer. Sure, you can “customise” it to a ridiculous degree (with their premium subscription), but it’s still little more than a glorified project management tool. It doesn’t do anything special that a free Trello account doesn’t do. Seems like it’s more just geared towards high volume sales teams.
Side note: a fond memory of mine was when an unknown third party signed up to the service using my credit card. Monday.com customer service refused to stop the subscription because I was not the “account owner”, but also refused to delete the (stolen) card details because their “policy requires saved card details at all times”. Had to cancel my card, and the bank still had some weird scheme where they shared the replacement card details with Monday.com. Took a lot of escalation with the bank over 3 months to get it resolved.
Not surprised of their high revenues at all. The software is nothing special at all though.
I'm going to sound like a total nutcase considering all of these comments agreeing with you, but the very small team I am on uses it and we all really like it, it really helps to visualize what projects are being worked on and when someone is stuck and why, the automations are helpful, it's been pretty good for us
Edit: even our facilities manager who is pretty tech illiterate doesn't mind it so much
Yeah I like it too although we use it at a very basic level. My team does lots of work where the work orders, priority, etc. is managed by other teams but we actually execute it. We also have four shifts who share the work since we operate 24/7. It's a nice system because we can see at a glance what's needed day to day.
Yes. In the case of Monday—software that puts time tracking and project management tasks in the lap of those actually working, streamlining their own job at the expense of others.
I was joking. But now that its a meme on WSB, it'll probably go up the next 2-3 Mondays for no reason. Then the lemmings discover the pattern, jump in and it quickly reverses for no reason again.
I get your point, however I work for a mid sized nonprofit and we (our staff) use it to track fundraisers, travel, contacts, and events. It makes it really easy to quickly share what’s going on and make sure everyone in the office has the most up to date information.
we used it at mrbeast to track some projects. was ok at kanban style for individuals to help with the pipeline to move tasks from one department to the next. The biggest flaw was the update speed. It wouldn't automatically update after you moved stuff to another department, they wouldn't see the move until they hit refresh as it was browser based. Trello would auto synch any updates as they happened in real time, monday did not.
I use it and I’ve also used Asana, ClickUp and a few others. I understand why some people hate it, but if you take the time to set it up it’s very customizable for different things and once you have all the automations running and know what you’re doing I find it way easier to navigate than the others.
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u/facedownbootyuphold Feb 10 '25
I had to use Monday at a company I worked at and absolutely hated it. It's just a program for managerial types, basically the 2020s equivalent of yesteryear's timesheets. The biggest problem with this software is that it requires workers (the people who actually make stuff and do stuff) to use software to input for the benefit of their managers. That's all. It's double work, and it benefits managers. After using it a few years I became so over the whole program, it's just corporate bloatware.