Workday reviews

3.5

58% would recommend to a friend

(4,594 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 4,594 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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5.0
Apr 17, 2018

Finance team in Salt Lake City

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Pros

Culture and core values really do mean something here and managers and employees genuinely care about maintaining a great place to work. It’s a fast-moving environment, well-staffed, and great work/life balance. Lots of opportunity to grow and develop either within the Finance organization or in other groups in the Salt Lake office. Career development is a priority and I regularly see internal promotions and people moving around to different areas inside/outside of Finance. Finance does a good job of hosting lots of fun events… everything from scavenger hunts downtown, escape rooms, bowling, golf and cantinas. There is also a big focus on charitable events like food drives, food bank days, holiday gift programs and cangineering events. Perks – good insurance benefits, fitness reimbursement program, free snack program, dogs allowed.

Cons

There isn't a lot of downside here, it's a great place to work!

2.0
Apr 17, 2018

Workday is smoke and mirrors

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Pros

Great benefits, decent compensation, strong senior leadership

Cons

The negative reviews are right. I know you’re thinking “its a top place to work.” But those numbers are skewed. Don’t be fooled like me. Wday sends those surveys to employees they expect will rate them favorably. Here’s more truth: 1. Nepotism is real here and there’s no plans to stop it. 2. “Its not what you know, its who you know. Hard work gets you no where, sucking up and strong relationships do..”- Workday Proverb 3. Backstabbing/Political Culture. The comments of blacklisting, HR turning on you and career suicide are true 4. This is not a place to “grow” your career if that’s what you want pick a different company. This is a place to build skills and move on.

1.0
Apr 11, 2018

Not as advertised

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Pros

- Very talented and hard working coworkers - Free bagels, snacks and occasional after work perks with your team

Cons

- The culture is very toxic, very cliquey made up from former PeopleSoft employees. - Management is incompetent, they will lie to your face about "work culture" and work values and not live up to integrity that they try to sell to you on day 1. - Work/life balance? If it's with the wrong team, you should throw that out the window. There is an unspoken rule to stay as long as you can after work and work as hard as you can on weekends without "being asked to". - If you have a disagreement with management, better keep your mouth shut otherwise you will be blacklisted and blackballed for stating the obvious to make your team better. They can't take any criticism and if you manage to say something, be very wary of the rest of your career at Workday. They are bullies and will single you out at every chance they get. - The management training program definitely needs work, these managers are ruining culture not creating it. Diversity only means that you are a person of different ethnic background. Keep quiet about your hobbies, interests and side hustles, it will be used against you forever. You definitely can't be yourself.

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