Workday reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(4,579 total reviews)
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Aneel Bhusri

60% approve of CEO

41% positive business outlook

Workday has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 4,579 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
Mar 24, 2016

Workday Rules

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

great company to work for

Cons

nothing negative to say about Workday

3.0
Mar 24, 2016

Good Company - Limited Opportunities

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great product, smart people, casual environment.

Cons

Very limited opportunity for advancement in your career outside of Pleasanton Headquarters.

2.0
Mar 23, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Workday is a great company if you want to be a cog in a giant machine, churning out code and making the big bucks. I'll admit, I think Workday is one of the higher paying companies in the East Bay at the moment. You may even climb the ranks, fast, if you're interested in constant politicking and back-scratching. But if you want a company where voices are heard and personality is valued, this isn't the company for you.

Cons

I'm going to preface this by saying that I've been an employee of Workday for 4+ years. I've had close to 10 managers, been on many distinct teams, and grown with Workday through numerous reorgs. Workday is vastly different now than when i first joined. It is no longer a "startup" culture, but recruiters or hiring managers will try to convince you otherwise. They'll say we're a successful company but without the bureaucracy of large corporate culture. I don't know if they've regurgitated that line so many times that they're starting to believe it themselves? Truth is, Workday is definitely a large company with many micro-cultures and so much bureaucracy. Your experience at this company will vary from team to team, it will be entirely dependent on your manager. And internal transfers are hard. With internal transfers, they will try at any cost to chip at your salary since they are certainly not going to compete against themselves (and trust me, I've been a part of many internal transfers). I'm not comfortable disclosing what team I work on, but let's just say my team has hemorrhaged an astounding number of developers and QA (let's just say we've lost more developers than the number of fingers on both your hands in the past year alone, and we've lost 80% of our QA), and the only answer management has for us is that there's nothing wrong. That said, I've been on awesome teams prior to this - in Workday. It all depends on management. I hope this helps!

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