Workday reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(4,567 total reviews)
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Aneel Bhusri

61% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

Workday has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 4,567 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
1.0
Feb 7, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Company has leading a edge product and is rapidly expanding. The business has solid funding and is firmly established in the market.

Cons

Almost too many to mention - Lots of bad middle managers - Corporate culture outside of Head office completely different.- - Sales culture is same old " old school SAP/ORACLE" old boys beef up your chest, kill at all costs approach. - Management very disconnected from corporate "values" - Supremely arrogant company; we are better than everyone else; we have no issues, if you don't like anything we do we can find people lined up to take your job. - Management very hypocritical; " encourages staff to manage expenses " like its your own money" staff does and then management does the exact opposite.

1.0
Feb 14, 2020

Not Great, Great, Great

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Some really great people, cool perks

Cons

If you wouldn’t want to work for SAP or Oracle, don’t join Workday. People are given leadership titles without equivalent experience. If they do have big company experience it’s from PeopleSoft, SAP, or Oracle, and they’ve brought their culture with them. A high school clique masked by a welcoming pretense. Lots of eye rolling in meetings. Blatant bullying is deemed acceptable behavior and defended. Research the tenure of recent hires to the company, did you notice that people leave rather quickly? Talented people are made to feel so disenchanted that they eventually resign.

2.0
Aug 30, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Unlimited PTO policy. Easy for engineers to take at least 5-6 weeks off a year. - Dog friendly office. - Easy to coast by and collect paychecks. - Close to Pleasanton BART. - Most teams allow engineers to work from home once a week. Workday is a great place to work if you live in the East Bay and value work/life balance highly. Perfect for people with families that want an easy workload and lots of PTO. Never felt stressed to deliver on a deadline. Easy to get stuck here since you barely feel like it's work.

Cons

- Abysmally low pay / salary compared to other tech companies in the Bay. - Lack of motivated engineers due to low pay. - Proprietary coding language not transferrable to other companies. - Promotion is mostly based on tenure, not accomplishment/talent. - Located in Pleasanton. - Snacks/drinks are of the cheapest quality, and often run out. If you're an engineer that aspires to leave Workday eventually, avoid at all costs. Working in a proprietary language 9-5 will severely diminish coding skills that other companies actually care about. Nowadays there's a serious lack of drive when comparing engineers at Workday to other companies. Great engineers have been leaving in droves since last year. Good luck escaping when you've been pigeonholed into your role.

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