Workday reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(4,575 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 4,575 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, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

People are good but upper managers are not.

Cons

upper management and the "co-ceo"s are a joke and don't care about employees. The product is subpar and the superbowl ad won't change that. They Layoff People and two weeks later have a Superbowl Ad with Ozzy, Kiss, Benatar, and Idol-Slap in the face of good people.

1.0
Apr 17, 2022

Corrupt QA

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Workday is a good company to work for, but it depends on which team.

Cons

The payroll qa leadership is especially plagued with corrupt practices. Let me highlight a couple of things. We recently received our compensation updates. A lot of capable people were not given promotions even though they deserved it. And the message that was given is that you need to be performing at the next level to earn a promotion. Ok. But, recently we had a QA reorg, and there was a Sr.management opportunity given to somebody who was new to the team. They were not performing at the next level: lack of experience and capability. They have shown incompetence and are yet given opportunities WTF? Is there something illicit between sr management and the layers?

2.0
May 11, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

1) Can coast by easily doing minimal work 2) Pays well when factoring RSUs and ESPP 3) Emphasis in work life balance and getting along with coworkers 4) Good fringe benefits such as getting to attend the Altitude conference every year

Cons

Services consultant here. This is what I see out in the field with customers: 1) Other consultants that do the bare minimum for their customers leaving them extremely dissatisfied and wishing they went with a partner 2) Consultants that get rolled off projects year over year and are still with the firm because managing out low performers is a foreign concept to Workday 3) Management and project leadership caring more that people get along and keeping the peace then actually making people accountable to deliver for customers. Customers continue to get screwed over in the process while high performers have to pick up the slack for the dead weight. 4) Customers telling me that Workday Services is going to be screwed over long term if the quality doesn’t improve 5) The pipeline showing signs of drying up a bit. Perhaps customers are getting wise to the fact that Workday cares more about doing everything possible to sell subscriptions to the detriment of services. Totally understand if customers begin to look elsewhere as they need to look out for their own interests. 6) Colleagues being burned out because none of the low performers are willing to stretch themselves in expanding their skill sets so all the work is shouldered by just a few key resources

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