Workday reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(4,569 total reviews)
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Aneel Bhusri

61% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

Workday has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 4,569 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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3.0
Jun 17, 2016

Sr. Manager

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great events, people generally have a focus on values. Engineering team is putting it some great product. Growing at a very quick pace.

Cons

Mid level managers have lost touch with CEO vision. Growth is a double edged sword as the team responsible for employee climate are very small minded in what a corporate environment should look like.

2.0
Apr 27, 2016

It used to be a great place

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Original values are great. Some amazingly smart people.

Cons

New management coming in does not recognize the original values Recognition of 'old-timers' and the work they continue to do is not recognized. It's only the new, just out of school employees.

1.0
Nov 11, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Any company that has a good cash flow is good for seniors, and people in the finance/hr or service roles. If you're into fun and like to live at work, the culture is great. The leadership is top-notch. Some visionary guys are in power here that help spurn the company forward.

Cons

When it comes to engineering, IT, and development, this place is a dead end. If you want to work day and night, spent 60 hours a week at a job that underpays you for 40 hours, this is your place. You will spend the rest of your life here in proprietary-language programming, finding hidden bugs in the system beyond your domain of knowledge. You'll spend most of your time tracking down people who caused a particular issue, not learning anything new about technology. Documentation is terrible here. Better become best friends with key people to know what's going on. They say they have career advancement opportunity here because you go nominally from associate, to engineer, to senior engineer, but these titles don't mean anything and they don't come with much pay increase. They do pay ok but that's only because their stock benefits are doing well "for the moment." The stock prices has been continually slowing in growth since I started and the lofty promise of And do the math and you'll realize that even if you worked only 40 hours a week, you make less than half the hourly pay of the average contractor. Don't be fooled by the fancy cars some workday employees drive. Seniority is the single most important factor here. If you are employee 500 or less, you're doing well. Also don't expect to design anything because all the important decisions are made by 6+ year seniors. If you worked at a startup or medium sized company you'd be doing the same job as them and make more in the long run.

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