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      Workday

      Engaged Employer

      Workday reviews

      3.5

      59% would recommend to a friend

      (4,588 total reviews)
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      Aneel Bhusri

      62% approve of CEO

      42% positive business outlook

      Ratings by demographic groups

      Workday has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 4,588 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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      5K reviews
      2.0
      Mar 30, 2021

      No culture, nonexistent career path, toxic management

      Senior program manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Workday started at a good pace with the right values. The product is overall great, with lots of interesting pieces.

      Cons

      Claims that it sets industry standards for HR/FIN/technology, while it lacks any standards. No corporate culture or values. Proved to be a very toxic place during the pandemic. No established career trajectories. Unexperienced management chain. Lots of nepotism. The company used to take pride and saying they are different from Oracle, it is becoming even worse. Pay increase only via stocks, very mediocre base increases.

      3.0
      Mar 25, 2021

      Good company, but their promises on diversity, equity and inclusion fall short

      Senior manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good professional development (training); good fellowship among employees

      Cons

      DEI is all marketing; they need to work on this themselves before preaching to the world about how good they are at diversity. If you look at their leadership / management, you can see how many underrepresented people they have (which is not a lot). They put all the work on their ERG groups, but put very little value on the impact these groups bring to the company. Support from senior leadership is lip service.

      2.0
      Oct 3, 2020

      No programming, just clicking your mouse and filling in forms.

      Software applications engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Workday does a good job of providing a lot of employee programs (fitness, snack, etc).

      Cons

      As a Software Application Engineer, you will use Workday's proprietary language called XO. It is horrible. It is soul-sucking and depressing. XO is not a programming language, it is forms that are filled out in a web browser to cause changes in the Workday application. You will not learn anything by using XO. There are no transferable skills to help you in your future if you work here as a Software Application Engineer. Workday knows this and are developing a layer on top of XO called YP. Don't be fooled, YP is not like any common programming language and will not help you in your future either. All I can say is DO NOT work here because you can do better and you deserve better.

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