Workday reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(4,593 total reviews)
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Aneel Bhusri

65% approve of CEO

41% positive business outlook

Workday has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 4,593 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
Nov 22, 2017

Great company and work life balance

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Workday's company culture is what sets them apart from the competition and is why employees decide to stay for the long term. They encourage every employee to embrace a work life balance. Thanks to an already great set of products, I would recommend Workday to whomever is thinking about joining.

Cons

Like most large companies, Workday is no stranger to office politics and middle management issues. The biggest internal challenge ahead will be proactively making efforts to cut out political agendas and provide training for all people managers.

1.0
Nov 20, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

- bagels every morning, telecommute, pet-friendly - store and restaurant discounts - near BART and mall

Cons

- Come here if you want to sink your engineering career. This place is filled with tech garbage no one really cares for like gerrit, openstack, and nagios. Their platform is built on proprietary language, xpresso, that is useless outside the company. - Many people come here from companies like SAP, DELL, and EMC to seek shelter and safe heaven under the illusion the Workday HR promotes as the company's "core values". - Most groups are filled with garbage tech workers - Workday tries to recycle them by placing them into roles they are unfit for. - Many managers are unsuited for their role. Promotion is run if you have influence in the Peoplesoft's boys club - former Oracle employees. - The salary is very low, low 401K matching, and subpar benefits. There is no free meals aside of bagels. You will have to spend money around to eat and it is not cheap! - This place feels like an unionized train station - no one says a negative word about the company, everyone goes "yes, sir" or "yes, ma'am" to their unqualified supervisors. - Reviews are completely biased. If you are good friends with your manager or someone above him/her, you will get good reviews. - HR is useless and a complete waste of company resources. Many don't show up to the office for days, only if there is a team meeting or company event. Many are spending time writing fake great reviews on public sites about Workday's culture. - The company is stuck in old school management and tech - there is no push for good tech like microservices and containers. - If you have an offer from Workday, please do yourself a big favor and go for a company that will help you grow.

5.0
Nov 15, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

I interned during my Summer at Workday and it was a great experience. Had the opportunity to learn from talented and smart people in many different departments. Workday worked hard to put together an excellent internship program (lots of networking, information panels, fun events throughout the summer, company swag).

Cons

Honestly, no real cons here

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