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

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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3.0
Jul 28, 2025

Could be worse

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Workmates are great and supportive.

Cons

Quotas are unrealistic. Some (not all) new RSDs are better players than coaches.

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Workday Response
11mo
Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. Caring for our Workmates is a core value that continues to guide us, and your input plays an important role in that. We sincerely appreciate your perspective.
1.0
Jul 27, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

It was great before new CEO. Worked with great people.

Cons

Don't bother. More layoffs coming. Hard work not appreciated, def dont bother with working on weekends or late nights. Zero new skills gained for your next job, you will be unemployed and scrambling for months. Unless you get WD certification (=$$$)no one will care that you helped build the software. You will think you're so busy that they cannot be without you yet they will cut you without management input.

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Workday Response
11mo
Thank you for sharing your feedback. At Workday, we take all input both positive and constructive seriously as we aim to create a welcoming and supportive environment for every employee. We’d appreciate the opportunity to learn more about your experience and explore how we can improve. Thank you again for bringing this to our attention, we will do our best to address any concerns you may have.
2.0
Jul 27, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The work-like balance is mostly good, unless your manager is strict about being in the office and not flexible when you have family commitments. Co-workers are supportive, hardworking, and nice, and oftentimes find ways to be successful and keep this company running in spite of the poor leadership.

Cons

There is still so much potential, with a good workforce, but this leadership will not get the company there. The company needs leaders who care to understand the technology and the business. The CEO only speaks marketing language and doesn't inspire so that Workday can lead. In the town halls and all of his external interviews, he sounds like he's reading from prompts written by someone to make him try to sound technically competent (or maybe he just asks AI). He seems to lack curiosity on how the technology works, and also on what is possible with AI. This cascades to the rest of the leadership. He claims Workday is an AI company but he doesn't seem to understand how. He gets the details wrong. Then he hires his friends (they often publicly talk about hiring each other) into the President and leadership roles, and his friends hire their friends, while firing pretty competent leaders, especially the strong women leaders. Any glance at the friendship circle and you can see their limited experience in building enterprise services or any understanding of HR, Finance, and AI together. What we see is lack of tech competence paired with friendship nepotism from the top down. There are a lot of good people here, but Workday has become an uninspiring place with leaders who seem to only care about profits and optics. So if you're good friends, or have family members in the inner circle, you're safe at Workday to make decisions that may be detrimental to the future of the company.

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Workday Response
10mo
Firstly, thank you for leaving a review. We take all feedback, positive or negative, very seriously at Workday and we will take this feedback internally to drive further improvements. We’re available to discuss your concerns and explore any opportunities for improvement. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to us directly at our Employee Relations mailer (employee.relations@workday.com) to discuss your experience in more detail.
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