Workday reviews

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!

Becoming increasingly bureaucratic Below market pay Promotions are few and far between (lots of lip service from managers) and very little transparency into how compensation/performance cycles really work All of the reviews about it not being the same Workday in as little as 2 years+ ago are true. The company has been growing extremely fast which isn't necessarily a con, but in the case of Workday, I feel like it has been especially in how the culture of the company has been affected. Workday used to be a great place to work with very much a startup like vibe and the culture that also reflected what I felt was Workday's true culture. However, too many great employees that have been loyal to the company are beginning to leave or are looking to leave because they get passed up for promotions and instead end up with the responsibility of training new colleagues and managers who will make more than them for doing essentially the same work. You see this trend in multiple departments within the company. Most of the mid-upper management positions will be hired in from the outside and most of those managers will manage up and delegate menial tasks to their direct reports. The 'company culture' isn't really enforced and most of middle-management probably could not care less about it, at least that's how it feels now and I've been watching this trend for 1.5 years. I truly believe that executive management has employees bests interests at heart and talks about being transparent and gathering feedback often, but there hasn't been an environment that's been created where employees feel comfortable with speaking their minds because usually their managers are also in the room when these topics are mentioned. Aside from a few solid managers (true leaders as I like to call them) that truly care about their teams and work tirelessly to mentor, develop, and grow their members so that they succeed, it seems as though the rest are just concerned about themselves and making sure they look good for their managers so they can move onto the next best thing. Some managers are really nice and great people, but they don't fight for their employees when issues arise or when it comes to compensation and promotions, which is disappointing. There's a reason why employees are taking to Glassdoor to express their frustrations because there really isn't any other avenue aside from complaining to your co-workers (which happens often). I truly hope to see this change and that we'll get back to being the same great Workday we once were.