Is Workday a good company to work for?

Workday has an overall rating of 3.5 out of 5, based on over 5,157 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 (263) , Account Executive (231) , 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 744 reviews)); "The people you work with are also great and there’s always a good sense of camaraderie around the increasingly difficult times." ((in 471 reviews)); "Benefits are great and competitive." ((in 402 reviews)); "Good work life balance and one of the top silicon valley company to work with." ((in 368 reviews)); "pay and boss are good" ((in 167 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 150 reviews)); "You can end up with a bad manager and department and its all downhill from there." ((in 145 reviews)); "Senior leadership MUST address this and try to make it up to the poor people they've wronged." ((in 114 reviews)); "As an induvial its incredibility difficult to be noticed and now in 2022, they had many layoffs." ((in 74 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

(4,590 total reviews)

Aneel Bhusri

62% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

3.9

Diversity & inclusion

3.8

Work/Life balance

3.7

Compensation and benefits

3.5

Culture & values

3.2

Career opportunities

2.9

Senior management

Workday has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 4,590 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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Reviews by job title

5K reviews

4.0

Mar 6, 2017

Good social culture

Associate qa engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

- Good work-life balance. Everyone's really chill and carefree. I'm supposedly on a hardcore team, but it's not so bad. - Unlimited PTO (with manager discretion). People typically take ~20 days of PTO a year - No company is free of politics, but it's not too bad here.

Cons

- No technical growth for QA engineers. - Very little growth for Software Devs - a lot of proprietary tools and languages. - Low challenges.

5.0

Mar 6, 2017

Senior Associate Product Manager

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Great product, leadership, market and opportunities, super nice and smart co-workers. Wonderful company culture.

Cons

HQ is located in Pleasanton.

1.0

Mar 4, 2017

Experienced professionals beware and think hard before joining Workday

Product development

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Implementation of Agile and scrum done well - seemed to work for team on which I was a part. I had a terrific dev manager but my direct manager was ineffectual and showed no leadership or management skills. Application workflow and notification not bad using user inboxes internal to application. Also some nice features to support unique attributes that can be propagated across different objects to personalize UI and improve reporting dimensions. If you are a new college grad Workday probably a good place but be careful not to question managers while there - some managers feel threatened or nervous when you question their decision criteria or methods that go beyond current user concerns and needs.

Cons

1. Old Oracle and Peoplesoft employees made this place toxic and not willing to listen to input and others points of view of experienced professionals. 2. I moved here from out of state to join what I thought was progressive company. I was with a financial software best of breed technology provider and was anxious to find out what seemingly made Workday a popular industry offering. 3. Found out fast that I had very little input into functionality and roadmap for which I am SME with over 20 years of experience. 4. For a company which has foundation in HCM, found employee review process completely subjective. No really KPI or quantitative metrics used to measure employee value or effectiveness. No transparency or methodology used for measuring employee contribution. 5. Realize if you join annual raises small - Workday likes to reward RSU to keep employees satisfied. 6. Technology 100% proprietary leading to frustration, inflexibility and rate of new development. 7. Workday claims UX is great. Not my expire either at all. No menu navigation; no integration with external widgets. Grid control not flexibility and does not support personalization include public and private data views. 8. If you are a experienced technical candidate with SDLC experience but not familiar with Workday - ASK TO SEE W DEMO OF PRODUCT AFTER SIGNING NDA. After leaving Workday every user I come across in other companies that use Workday Financials are NOT AT ALL fans of UX.

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