Workday reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(4,571 total reviews)
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Aneel Bhusri

60% approve of CEO

41% positive business outlook

Workday has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 4,571 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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1.0
Nov 7, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

I love the company and what it stands for. The product is amazing and would consider it the best on the market. The company perks are fantastic!

Cons

The majority of the issues in the Sat Lake City office stem from the finance senior management. The middle managers are mostly great but do not have the freedom to manage how they see best; it is dictated by senior management. The environment is difficult due to the negative attitudes and how cut -throat it can be; the company in general is not cut-throat but senior management is. Senior management can be condescending to underlings which is widely known throughout the office. One example of this kind of behavior is the senior director ‘asking’ employees to do personal tasks (for the director) which are not work related. Many of the promotions have been due to being in the 'inner-circle' or by being a 'suck-up' it is sad to see a company that is so great be tainted by poor management. Policies that do not make any sense such as mandating which hours have to be worked have been put in place. These policies are NOT dictated by Workday but by what senior management desires. The feeling is many people would leave not because of the company but because of the management. They stay in order to vest their stock options, myself included.

1.0
Oct 22, 2016

The old culture is gone, now it's just another boring ERP behemoth

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Workday had an excellent chance 10 years ago when it was way ahead of the market with a great product and more importantly, outstanding culture. And it did manage to capitalize. The IPO was great and it is a big name in HCM business now. The product is still very competitive and the customers love it.

Cons

Unfortunately, it looks like the best days are over. Workday is kicking off more and more projects, but they don't get completed well and don't integrate one with another. There are a lot of things I can't tell publicly, but under the hood the product is becoming a mess with more and more holes. The culture became very weird. The management states the values it used to honor but no longer does. We've been asking about management reviews and it's been promised many times but just never happened. Probably too many managers are not interested to make it happen. The management keeps constantly changing marching orders and it results in many projects in flux. As many people stated, the compensation is way below the market. And the career growth - it's not like it's not happening, people do get promoted, but if you want to figure out what you personally need to get done to be promoted - good luck with that. One day we have a campaign to promote GWs, then we hire from outside, then promote from inside. It may played out well for people who got promoted like this, but if you're an average hard worker - you'd be completely lost of what your career path is. While on average people don't work much, some key people are definitely worked until they get burned out. I see a lot of stress due to that around. But HR is ignoring that. I can keep going on and on, but I think you see the point. Sure, it's not the worst company in the business, but it's not a top tier employer any longer and the culture is deteriorating. More importantly, the top management is still in the denial stage where they believe that they are almost perfect and ignoring systemic issues (like lack of management accountability/reviews), that means it's going to get much worse before it gets better.

1.0
Aug 1, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

The best technology and software in this industry. Company is moving in the right direction to take over the enterprise software market

Cons

Terrible pay, benefits, and culture. If you worked at PeopleSoft, or are one of the rare "chosen ones" who happen to fall into favor with the PeopleSofters, you walk on water. You get all of the promotions, merit, bonuses, stock, and compensation. You can be in the field and have a reputation of being awesome, but your direct management team won't recognize you, promote you, pay you, or develop you. Dave Duffield is definitely no longer around, and he took his culture and values with him, no matter what the company wants you to believe. Taking your comments all the way to senior leadership just gets you black balled and retaliated against. This is from personal experience, as after I raised my concerns, a large piece of compensation I was promised was mysteriously denied by upper management with no explanation given.

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