Workday reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(4,591 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 4,591 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
Oct 11, 2017

Great Company Culture

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Pros

The people are the best you'll ever meet.

Cons

Since we have the best product in our space, competitors like to sling mud in our direction. I thrive on healthy competition but some of Workday's competitors are down right DIRTY.

2.0
Oct 11, 2017

Think twice before joining Workday's Security team

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Pros

Workday's Charity and Volunteer Program ("Giving and Doing") is the best I've seen at any employer. We are serious about giving back, and that sentiment is shared from the top down. Workday product is Best In Class, and our customers love us. Workday Senior Management takes Privacy, Confidentiality, and Security seriously. Workday's Employee Programs team is always doing things for the employees to make our work day fun and interesting.

Cons

Mass exodus of Security Engineers at Workday. If you're thinking about taking one of those positions, here's some things you want to know. Security's management team is unprofessional, inexperienced and incompetent. The "culture" is commonly talked about as "a typical engineering org". This somehow explains the bad behavior and fist-bump decision-making. Workday Security is a mix between a frat house and Lord of the Flies. Nerf gun bullets are everywhere, and one manager in particular acts like a human bullhorn, marching around barking at the team. The managers are aggressive, argumentative, insulting, and antagonistic. In December 2016 the CEO said that bad managers would be fired. 10 months later, I guess this is not considered bad management.

5.0
Oct 9, 2017
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Pros

They trust their employees, from day one they trust you to do your job and do the right thing. They are giving me a huge amount of opportunity and trust me to stay with them, which I have every intention of doing. Really heavily investing in my training and education with no contract commitments required from me. Really rigorous interview process for aptitude and cultural fit, it would be easy for a company growing so fast to drop their standards but they don't. Great company strategy, I really feel like our executive management have strategy down to a tee and and the work we are doing is well directed and making the company very profitable. With generous share options you feel like you are part of the company's massive success. Amazing offices, everything you could want. The snack program is just the best with a huge range of fruit delivered every day from the markets. Company parties and cultural events occur all the time. Their on-boarding process is top notch. I feel like I had the tools needed to start providing value right out of the door. Very quickly fit into my team. Such a great office location in Smithfield. Loads of opportunity to travel, generous number of holidays. Which as a young professional wanting to see the world is great. Great support system, multiple points of contact in the company for support, guidance and advice. Very little / no politics. It is just so refreshing to see a company with such strong morals, and good intentions to do so well competitively. Workday is on to a winning formula.

Cons

Salary isn't the most competitive & There is a lot of technical debt as a result of having to scale so quickly, every rule has multiple exceptions. (This isn't necessarily a con as it is what the work is.)

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