Workday reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(4,561 total reviews)
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Aneel Bhusri

59% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

Workday has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 4,561 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 Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
Feb 29, 2020

Toxic Work Culture created by middle management.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Free snacks, good dental and medical benefits. Can bring pets (dogs) to work. The product is amazing and the vision of the company is good but there are many bad managers and there is no formal 360 feedback to control their performance. Workday has a great product and leadership has a great vision, but sadly it is losing great talent because of the toxic work culture created by new managers in the middle management.

Cons

The culture of the company is deteriorating. There are too many managers but less individual contributors, so the individual contributors get buried with workload. While the new managers are busy playing politics to secure their positions. The managers throw their direct reports under the bus to score points with internal clients and upper management. The worker bees feel dissatisfied, undervalued and disrespected. As a result the attrition rate is very high and something needs to be done to change the culture.

2.0
Oct 10, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-Nice people -Smart people being hired -Great place to just collect a paycheck (if that's your style)

Cons

-Same people in upper management for 5+ years -Lack of upper management experience from other companies -No constructive negotiations/debates -Not allowed to question -Must agree with legacy employees -Everyone is in fear to suggest change/improvements/anything different than what executive management says because they are then blacklisted -Very stay in your lane culture -If you care more than just receiving a paycheck, you will slowly die inside here -Lack of innovation, and a strong fear of failure

1.0
Jul 11, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great to have on your resume. Somehow the marketplace still thinks this is a great place to work. Land here- do what you can (which wont be much) and leave as soon as you get the offer you really wanted.

Cons

Ashley: This post is directly for you. Social media is the only outlet. If employees dont trust HR, how can we trust an anonymous email to report issues? There are issues in this company- what is holding you back from doing a 360 degree company wide survey on an annual basis? I am giving until end of Q2 for workday to launch a company wide survey employee survey. Without a survey, my next email will be to the same team who did the amazon article, trust me they would love to hear what workday is like from an insiders perspective. Harassment, racial bias, retaliation.....who knows if you give the final direction on these issues but regardless, this needs to reach your desk. Without a 360 degree survey, there is no way these issues will rise to the top. Maybe they have and the real problem is you? Prove me wrong.

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Workday Response
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I appreciate you taking the time to write this review, and I’d like to speak with you directly about your feedback. Employees are a big part of our core values, and I would like to hear more about the critical issues that you feel are not being addressed. Please reach out to me at ashIey.goldsmith@workday.com.
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