Workday reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(4,592 total reviews)
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Aneel Bhusri

65% approve of CEO

41% positive business outlook

Workday has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 4,592 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
Jun 18, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The company offers a modern, well-maintained campus with amenities that create a pleasant work environment. Benefits are competitive, including comprehensive health plans and perks that support employee well-being. Work-life balance is achievable, particularly for those who prefer a low-pressure activities, align and comply with established processes and status quo.

Cons

Leadership does not consistently embody the company’s stated core values, which can undermine trust. Employees who excel in their roles but challenge established processes may face risks, including potential layoffs. Excellent engineers and managers were let it go in the last layoff due VP's politics. Some VP-level promotions appear to prioritize factors other than technical expertise in critical product areas, which can hinder effective decision-making. The technology stack is outdated and limited, and there is limited focus on innovation or a clear long-term vision, often due to misaligned leadership priorities.

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Workday Response
1y
We appreciate your feedback and would like to better understand your experience and how we can address the issues that you raised in your review. Please feel free to contact us at employee.relations@workday.com and we will be more than happy to further discuss your concerns.
2.0
Jun 17, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- People have good intentions - WLB - The work is not difficult

Cons

- Lack of leadership direction and support. We're headless chickens running around with no directions. It's a consensus driven organization. No one can make a decision or wants to make a decision. - Way too many layers of management. I don't understand why we have multiple layers of VPs. I actually don't even know what my GM or VP even does. They only appear in town-halls. - Career progression feels like it's been stalled since joining workday until you joined the right org. When you want to start looking internally for new roles, you feel like you're blocked because of the bureaucracy of the company. The company policies are very outdated. Emailing your manager when you apply for a role seems archaic and regardless, it signals that you want to leave your team. It does not foster the culture that you'd expect from a HR software company that repeatedly has success stories on internal mobility. - The internal process itself is so demoralizing. The recruiters clearly are inept of their jobs and I don't understand why most of them are principal level recruiters when they have no idea what they're talking about and seem like they're struggling explaining to you the role and team. They clearly are not invested in looking at internal candidates either.

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Workday Response
1y
Thanks so much for taking the time to share your experience at Workday with us. If you'd be willing, we’d like to hear more of your feedback. If you could kindly email employee.relations@workday.com - we look forward to hearing from you.
2.0
May 29, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

My managers and my individual contributor co-workers. We get a great work/life balance. We get compensated fairly. We get snacks in the office.

Cons

Our new leadership. Everyone is literally new within the last two or three years and they all have no clue what is going on. As an individual contributor you can feel and experience the impacts of poor leadership and poor planning. We don’t have Greta talent anymore because they laid everyone off and then more people left in their own. We don’t have a vision for how to improve our business because we are no longer motivated as individual contributors to work that way. Leaders of companies don’t usually realize this, but the employees are the ones that ensure the business is successful. The workers come up with the good ideas and also see when a course correction is needed because they are in the trenches doing the work.

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Workday Response
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Firstly, thank you for leaving a review. We are grateful that you gave us your opinion so we can contemplate and determine ways to make our Workmates feel respected, have transparent communication and improve the overall experience. Feel free to contact our Employee Relations mailer (employee.relations@workday.com) if you wish to speak to us more about your experience.
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