Workday reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(4,568 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 4,568 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
Apr 26, 2018
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Pros

Some really smart people 401k matching RSU Stocks Free stocks and drinks

Cons

Management is deceptive; they will say one thing to your face, but their actions show otherwise. They ask you to be transparent with them, but they will use the information you give them to their advantage (ie. if they know you will eventually be moving on from Workday, they will not give you any raises or compensation for your past year's review even though an annual review is based on past year's performance and not what you will be doing in the future). DO NOT tell management anything regarding your future plans. Some workers on certain teams are incompetent and lazy. Will take long vacations and knowing that their vacation date is coming up, will delay their work and not finish because they know someone else will pick up their slack. Some will always wait until the end of sprints to log bugs or start work so that they can pretend that they were super busy the whole sprint; therefore, the need to roll over stories. People are being hired just because they are related to someone who already works here or is someone's friend. For example, the qualification for a QA Engineer job here is at least 5 years minimum in QA. In the QA industry, if you have actually been working for 5 years, you would know what TDD or BDD or other commonly used QA terms mean. I have seen QAs in meetings ask what TDD or BDD mean and have asked for explanations. This tells me that they probably got the job through a family/friend and/or faked their resume to get the job. Annual raises is based on how much you suck up to management, and how much they like you. Even if you do all your work and take everything they dump on you, if management doesn't like you, your raises won't be as high as someone who did less work but is a friend of management. People using all sorts of excuses on a regular basis to work from home or not come in to work. Here are a few that I've seen: -It's hard to turn my steering wheel, I'll be wfh -I need to stay home for a package or go home to sign for a package -I need to go feed my dog/cat -I have a haircut appointment today, i'll be wfh -Traffic is heavy right now, i'll be wfh The best place to work for award? That's total bull. It's what management sends out to their employees every year and asking them to fill out. Of course most employees will always give the company they work for a super high rating.

2.0
Nov 14, 2016

Isn't it ironic?

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Workday got the basics covered. The offices are reasonable (not counting lack of parking, occasional lines in the restrooms and constantly failing coffee machines), there are free snacks and fruits (yes!), ping pong and pool tables, fitness allowances and other perks. There are cool company events (the latest picnic and Halloween were below average but still not bad). On a more serious note, it's a large company with a lot of people and projects, it is well known in ERP world and has some very competitive products.

Cons

Speaking about irony ... Workday sales pitch is based around helping customers to make data driven decisions. You give us your data and we help you to make sense out of them. Not just review, but analyze and react, or, even better, be proactive. Great! However, for some reason internally Workday does exactly opposite. It avoids making data driven decisions. Setting clear goals and measuring the results? Feedback on the managers? Defining clear requirements for a promotion? Review of the projects? Measuring efficiency? Public metrics? No! Secrecy becomes an integral part of how the company operates. Sometimes we get people hired nobody knows why. Then people disappear without any explanation. Projects get started then cancelled - no explanations either. Security is increasingly based on obscurity. The technical debt is exploding. We are doing more and more work with less and less progress. And as many reviewers mentioned, the compensation is below market. If a lot of pointless work for little pay doesn't scare you away - you're welcome to join - and it should be easier by looking at the turnover numbers.

1.0
Jan 12, 2016

Workday

Anonymous employee
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Pros

People in the Dublin Office are extremely nice and welcoming

Cons

There are two sides to the company very Jekyll and Hyde it depends what side of the organisation that you sit as to how you are treated. If you are going to join workday be prepared for that and for the politics that goes with it.

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