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
Jan 19, 2026

The CEO has turned the company culture toxic

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- The benefits that haven't yet been taken away can be useful. - The ESPP scheme is a good way to earn a little more. - Generally the people you work with can be fun.

Cons

Honestly, the last few years since Carl has taken over have been incredibly tough and sad to see. He's been striving to destroy the employee experience at every turn to save a few pennies whilst simultaneously saying he cares and pretending to cry while he announces redundancies. Before he came along, Workday was a fantastic place to work with a lovely culture, since then it's been completely upended and is now just your average American corp where the executives are caricature businessmen who only care about their next quarterly earnings. Carl has been on an aggressive cost cutting exercise over the last few years with multiple rounds of redundancies. So much so that everyone now works in fear of being outsourced to India. I've personally had colleagues who have unknowingly trained their replacements out there before being let go. Morale is on the floor and with it has gone any form of creativity or innovation as no one wants to fail and be sent out the door. Promotions are being cut and employees now have to compete against each other for the few that get granted each year, being force ranked on each occasion. This has led to no one wanting to give recognition and a massive sense of mistrust around each other. Those who thought they had a future here are finding quickly there is none so are leaving in droves, however, there is also currently no backfilling of open roles so those that are left have to pick up the slack leading to burnout and being put into impossible situations with no hope of success. Employees are massively overworked all while some American executive keeps telling you to "do more with less" with the only reward at the end of the year being a round of redundancies. Overall, Workday has become a terrible place to work. They still market "employees" to candidates as a value trying to say they care but please do not be fooled by this, they haven't cared for a long time and while Carl is here they never will.

1.0
Jan 17, 2026

Poor leadership, layoffs threatening

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good people to work with, work-life balance

Cons

Leadership Layoffs threatening No career progression anymore Pointless investments in unnecessary acquisitions No actual recognition

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Workday Response
5mo
Thank you for sharing your feedback. At Workday, we take all input both positive and constructive seriously as we aim to create a welcoming and supportive environment for every employee. We’d appreciate the opportunity to learn more about your experience and explore how we can improve. Please feel free to reach out to our Employee Relations team at employee.relations@workday.com to discuss further. Thank you again for bringing this to our attention, we will do our best to address any concerns you may have.
5.0
Jan 16, 2026
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Pros

Nice company to do interesting work

Cons

Seem fragile lately and Chennai office seems to be design to take jobs away from North Americans and management is gaslighting people into thinking otherwise

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Workday Response
5mo
Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. Caring for our Workmates is a core value that continues to guide us, and your input plays an important role in that. We sincerely appreciate your perspective.
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