Workday reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(4,587 total reviews)
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Aneel Bhusri

62% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

Workday has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 4,587 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Workday employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
Mar 1, 2016

Internal IT - lagging in thought leaders

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Pros

The overall culture is a good one - trying to keep a start-up agile mentality. Also big on charity and giving back. In general the compensation and benefits are in line with what you'd expect from a rapidly growing, successful Silicon Valley SaaS company.

Cons

The leadership within internal IT are not thought leaders in this area. Rather, they are reactive to whatever the business wants, regardless of whether it makes sense for Workday as a company. Also, they tend to be reactive to the latest sales pitches, and not analytical about what makes sense for Workday. They are not appreciative or receptive to area expertise that might not align with their view of the world. If you espouse erudition, this is probably not the department for you to work in. If you just like pulling in a paycheck, go for it.

1.0
Nov 8, 2015

Bad slow technology

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Pros

People are friendly in general. Pays ok for yearly salary.

Cons

Use bad technology to program called XpressO. It slows devs down. Something that can be done in 1 minute in SQL, took me 8 hours to figure out.

3.0
Aug 24, 2023

Good and Bad - Terrible Middle Management

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Fantastic pay, great benefits, opportunity to learn new skills with gigs and lots of wonderful people. I truly did enjoy most of my time at Workday.

Cons

AWFUL middle managers. My Director was based in the UK and he was a complete joke. So arrogant and cocky. He came into the team and was just a tyrant within our organization and never provided actual constructive criticism. He brought in a few other employees from his last role and they all 3 were just on their own planet and acted so much more superior than everyone else. I never understood their attitudes just because they came from another enterprise company. My 2 direct people leaders, my other colleagues, other teammates within my organization were all fantastic, but this one director was just a joke. Shame that he is still there, but he is arrogant and that fits in with Workday leadership styles.

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