Workday reviews

3.5

58% would recommend to a friend

(4,596 total reviews)
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Aneel Bhusri

66% approve of CEO

41% positive business outlook

Workday has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 4,596 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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4.0
May 4, 2018

Good overall, but there's room for improvement

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great culture, relatively easy to maintain Work/Life balance Good range of benefits offered

Cons

EU team is very dependant on US in their decisions Management team struggles to break out of the reactive approach Base salary is below market level (company is trying to compensate by amount of shares granted annually)

5.0
May 3, 2018

A Great Place to Work

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great Work Environment and Culture

Cons

Sometimes Decisions from Top Management are not well communicated.

1.0
Apr 30, 2018

Stay away

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Maternity leave benefit (but see cons as it was not supported).

Cons

Returned from maternity leave and after leaving detailed documentation/coverage plan, no coverage was actually put in place so upon my return I’m having to front customers and take one for the team since their dissatisfaction is low (since they had no coverage while I was out). Also, when accepting original job agreed to travel of 5-10%, was part of a reorganization where I had no choice on what direction I wanted to go so all customers are outside my home city, nothing local any longer. On top of traveling for customers (2-3 times a month) have to travel for group events putting my travel at 75-90%. Tried speaking to my manager about said topic and I’m told I need to think about my career and instead of helping me prioritize the travel insinuated that my job is not secure and that I’m letting my colleagues down. On top of a day to day job where I’m getting beat down by customers, I have no support of my management chain, related to work and the amount of the workload OR my personal life. I want to laugh at the great place for parents award, I have nobody on my immediate team who is a parent, including my manager so when trying to speak about the above and sharing the impact to my family I am told I need to think about my career options. And, performance management. If you happen to take maternity leave, don’t do it in H2. Any work you do in H1 is forgotten (even if you document it) so don’t think you will ever be considered for a promotion and you are essentially forgotten in any performance conversation therefore leading to a minimal merit increase.

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Workday Response
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Thanks for your feedback. We value it and will definitely keep this in mind. Providing our employees with a sense of work-life balance and support, including coming back from maternity leave, is extremely important to us. It’s concerning to hear that we fell short here in anyway, and we’re sorry you feel that way. We’ll do everything we can to look into this, and make this right. Additionally, if you feel comfortable with it, we welcome any suggestions or additional feedback you’d like to share confidentially via employee.feedback@workday.com.
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