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
2.0
Aug 29, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great software. Easy to present and a new way of doing business. Good culture at the US Head Office Campus in Pleasanton. Great group of talent.

Cons

The power of one is an overwhelm tag line. The Workday solutions bring other management transactional challenges. Does not live up to its reputation as a top employer. On-boarding experience was horrible and didn't provide the tools and knowledge to deliver efficiently in the first year ! originally, workday was a much better employer than Oracle and SAP. But they were corrupted by the arrival of manager from their competitors. And they wanted to bring their old employees.

2.0
May 17, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Generally great and friendly people - Company cares about the happiness of employees

Cons

-Xpresso is the death of a career. Some internal initiatives are evidence to how unsuccessful Xpresso is and efforts to "revitalize" the language. Application developers hate it and other engineers openly mock the language that developers have to use. - Underpaid. Even after "market adjustments," application developers are underpaid compared to the industry standard. If you're going to make developers learn a new language and trap them to a poorly built construct, at least compensate them appropriately in return. - There's no concept of exploring new technologies as an application developer. Sure you can learn new technologies within Workday, but again they're all Workday specific that are not transferrable in any way. Workday only makes developers better for Workday, not in general.

1.0
Jan 31, 2017

Political

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Nice people, good snacks, market leader

Cons

Unfortunately this is the only place to share feedback without being a target for retaliation. The reason for the 1 star is because I don't appreciate being told by my employer to "like" and "share" postings on social media about controversial issues at the national level. Today all employees were told to show support against the U.S. Executive Order on immigration. It's seems Workday should not be telling its employees what it should and shouldn't support in the US federal government. They are making false assumptions that all employees agree with their view point. It's very narrow minded of them to think this way as that is not the case with how all of their employees feel on this subject.

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Workday Response
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At Workday, we are proud of our values, which promote inclusion and belonging. We stand behind our belief that the executive order on immigration may be harmful to our employees and our business, but we also believe in the rights of each of our employees to hold their own beliefs. We would not ask someone to support or promote a position with which they do not agree. If our communication about Workday’s statement on the executive order led you to believe we want you to express the same views, we apologize. That was not our intent. Our values encourage all forms of diversity—including political beliefs—and we will continue doing our best to demonstrate that in our words and actions.
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