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      Workday

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      Workday reviews

      3.5

      59% would recommend to a friend

      (4,576 total reviews)
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      Aneel Bhusri

      60% approve of CEO

      41% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.9

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.8

      Work/Life balance

      3.7

      Compensation and benefits

      3.5

      Culture & values

      3.1

      Career opportunities

      2.9

      Senior management

      Workday has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 4,576 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
      2.0
      Jan 10, 2016

      Top down decision making and lack of innovation

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good ideas and people. Benefits are competitive. Workplace is good with snacks and relaxed. Pay is decent for East Bay location and close to BART. Growing market for cloud HR and financial products. UI is good on par with consumer websites.

      Cons

      Top down decision making everywhere be it in product management or technical leadership. Central technical architects take all decisions who do not involve in daily scrums which leaves team looking for help always. Very slow to get things done. Not setup for innovation to foster. They spend too much money on operations for a cloud company. No transparency who is leaving the company, customers. Performance is not all par with consumer websites.

      1.0
      Jan 7, 2016

      Not what it seems

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      There is still some legacy family-driven culture left from the Dave Duffield PSFT days. Halloween, bring kids to work, etc. If you want to learn how people manage up, this is the place. Products are good, customers are good. There are some really good people working there.

      Cons

      Extremely political, hypocritical leadership and a back-stabbing culture with many PSFT, Oracle and SAP leaders and for some reason tenure--not results--carries more weight. Hierarchical, can't get decisions made, lack of respect and authenticity. It's a strange place--and one that I'm happy to never set foot in again. Senior HR leadership weak and disconnected. Poor compensation well below market.

      5.0
      Jan 2, 2016

      Great company culture

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Workday is the greatest company I have worked for. The culture is great and from day one you can tell you are cared about as an individual.

      Cons

      None that I can think of. Possibly be faster at responding to those who didn't receive the job.

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