Is Workday a good company to work for?

Workday has an overall rating of 3.5 out of 5, based on over 5,153 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has decreased by 6% over the last 12 months. 59% of employees would recommend working at Workday to a friend and 42% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about Workday have been left by employees working as Value Manager , Solution Consultant and Sales Development Representative (SDR) .

Does Workday pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Workday employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.7 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Workday. This rating has decreased by 4% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Workday?

59% of Workday employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Workday 3.8 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.5 for culture and values and 3.2 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Workday?

Software Engineer (262) , Account Executive (230) , Senior Software Engineer (97) , Product Manager (96) , Software Development Engineer (80) , Consultant (67) , Manager (58) , Director (49) , Senior Consultant (49) , Software Applications Engineer (48) , Sales (46) , Corporate Sales Development (44) , Customer Success Manager (37) , Program Manager (37) , Senior Product Manager (37)

What are the pros of working at Workday according to real employee reviews?

"The culture is great and from day one you can tell you are cared about as an individual." ((in 750 reviews)); "The people you work with are also great and there’s always a good sense of camaraderie around the increasingly difficult times." ((in 466 reviews)); "Benefits are great and plentiful." ((in 414 reviews)); "Good work life balance and one of the top silicon valley company to work with." ((in 375 reviews)); "Pay and time everything is good" ((in 174 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Workday according to real employee reviews?

"up' it is sad to see a company that is so great be tainted by poor management." ((in 147 reviews)); "You can end up with a bad manager and department and its all downhill from there." ((in 144 reviews)); "Senior leadership MUST address this and try to make it up to the poor people they've wronged." ((in 113 reviews)); "As an induvial its incredibility difficult to be noticed and now in 2022, they had many layoffs." ((in 71 reviews)); "Middle management is horrible!" ((in 33 reviews))

What are employees saying about Workday layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Workday layoffs and their outlook for job security at Workday in 2026.

What are the top reviewed Workday locations?

Pleasanton , San Francisco , Salt Lake City , Atlanta , Chicago , New York , Boulder , Boston , Austin , San Jose , Dallas , Washington , Denver , Los Angeles , Seattle , San Diego , Dublin , Palo Alto , Philadelphia , Minneapolis , Nashville , Irvine , Santa Clara , McLean , San Mateo , Houston , Tampa , Mason , Beaverton , Orlando

Workday reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(4,586 total reviews)

Aneel Bhusri

62% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

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Workday has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 4,586 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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5K reviews

3.0

Jan 2, 2019

Traditional organization great for "happy cows," not innovators.

Engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

* Company really cares about employees' well-being * Jerky managers are counseled out * Psychologically safe * Company is currently successful * Traditional top-down hierarchy works great for sales, operations

Cons

* Heavy hierarchy kills innovation * Internal innovation success has been mixed * Failure has lead to costly acquisitions, team displacement * The few teams that enjoy autonomy often build useless, buzzword-heavy toys to pad their resumes

4.0

Jun 28, 2018

Great to Good

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

A lot o good people started and built this company and they’ve built products that are Moderately better than many of their competitors’

Cons

Lots of waste, superfluous process, major org changes every 6-12 months, and declining culture caused by an emphasis to protect executive management’s self-esteem over actually identifying real problems so they can be solved.

3.0

Sep 28, 2017

Best place to work? Not in sales.

Sales

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Great product. Solid c-levels.

Cons

Way too much rolling out from corporate to field sales (admin, meetings, surveys, training, more meetings, marketing, and a few more meetings,). Sales needs to be in front of prospect more. Fire drills are going to happen, but EVERYTHING there is a fire drill, making it very difficult to plan/schedule selling activity. Highly touted culture may exist at corporate, but doesn't translate to field.

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