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      Workday

      Engaged Employer

      Workday reviews

      3.5

      59% would recommend to a friend

      (4,568 total reviews)
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      Aneel Bhusri

      61% approve of CEO

      42% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.9

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.8

      Work/Life balance

      3.8

      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 4,568 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
      1.0
      Nov 12, 2019

      Future Unclear

      Director
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Great executive team, focus on employees - Nice people - Good work/life balance

      Cons

      Inexperience middle management treat team members poorly but turn around with poker faces when upper management. Employees are not your kids that you can scold whenever your mood tells you to. Drive workload and blame team members when things go wrong. Refuse to take any responsibilities themselves. Weekly Best Workday Pulse Survey won't work when you have a small team. That means easy identification and retribution, either you leave or suck it up. Some group have high turnovers. Tough to see Workday is going this way.

      2.0
      Oct 17, 2019

      Slow Steady Decline

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Culture is fairly good and diverse workforce

      Cons

      Inexperienced management team has a negative effect on individual contributors - Raising issues is met with harsh criticism and risk of discontinued employment. Lots of attrition and lateral movement across teams due to dis-satisfaction with management, causing teams to have to "start over" frequently ... this reduces the quality of the product and slows innovation. New employees often receive little to no on-boarding.

      2.0
      Oct 23, 2018

      Don't make the same mistake I did

      Applications developer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Good culture, fun co-workers - Great work life balance - Stock is doing well, good ESPP plan, stock refreshers - Generation Workday new grad program is a good way to make friends

      Cons

      Workday’s App dev teams are the product engineering teams and they build the app using a propriety GUI-based language called Xpresso. The tools teams work on infrastructure and they use traditional programming languages like java and scala. This review is about app dev only. Hate to say it but working in Xpresso is a very bad career move for engineers coming straight out of college. Unless you are proactive and work on side projects or continue to learn in your free time, you will forget your traditional coding skills. You will also not be exposed to industry-standard practices and tools by working in a proprietary stack. If you ever decide to leave, you'll likely struggle to find a traditional coding job. Workday probably has good retention rates for app devs not because app devs don't want to leave, but because they can't leave. They tell you that you’ll still learn high-level concepts like design and OOP but I don’t think it’s enough to make you a competent engineer. They also tell you that you can eventually transfer to a tools team, but it seems like you have to spend several years doing app dev first before you can switch. Also, I think the salary for app devs is below industry average.

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