Workday reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(4,583 total reviews)
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Aneel Bhusri

62% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

Workday has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 4,583 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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5K reviews
4.0
Aug 23, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Your personal health is of huge importance to leadership. - If you are feeling stagnant in your position, there are other opportunities within the company for you, even if it means only a temporary change. - The best Onboarding experience you will have in terms of getting to know what the company is about. - The company, as a whole, has an extremely positive work environment and are very optimistic about the product moving forward. - Aneel is a very smart individual and he has almost every employee's backing

Cons

- The benefits and pay aren't even close to the rest of the Bay Area. It is very hard to negotiate a raise. - It is very hard to get noticed at Workday for your contributions. In a company full of rockstars that are handpicked by managers as their favorites, this is very troublesome if you don't have a very outgoing personality and don't often stand out in a crowd. - There is not much work to be had here. I wasn't learning at as fast pace as some of my peers outside of the company were. There were many days I spent surfing the internet waiting for more work/responsibility to be dumped on my plate.

2.0
Aug 23, 2016

Professional Services Group

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Snack program, flexibility to work remotely, many co-workers are fantastic, bright colleagues. What Workday "say's" they stand for. Various events to bring the larger Workday population together.

Cons

Next to no ability to grow professionally. Significant hurdles from middle management layer. Career limiting in many areas. Shameful where an employee's mood is predicated upon what kind of a mood the manager is in or whether the employee needs to deal with the manager. Common mood on the team of walking on "egg shells". Around Workday - frequent lowering of morale. What was acceptable one day, changes next week, and right back to the original a week after that.....

4.0
Aug 23, 2016

Good people

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good people throughout the organization. Maniacal Focus on employee and customer satisfaction is permeated throughout the company. Very satisfied customer base and most of the employees are loyal to Workday.

Cons

1. Sometimes the product strategy seems to be fragmented and can shift at the whims of the CEO. Seems like they are trying to do too many things at once at times. 2. Will the CEO scale and lead them to be a much larger company or is he a better fit for <$1 billion revenue companies?

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