Workday reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(4,570 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 4,570 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
Oct 14, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

If you're related to someone there, or best friends with your manager, you will have a job for life and be promoted to your greatest level of uselessness.

Cons

Difficult place to work, expectations are beyond ridiculous at times. Unrealistic goals expectations. If you're not part of the inner clique, they will band together to make sure you will not survive. I've seen this behavior on numerous occasions.

2.0
Oct 2, 2017

Quickly becoming a shadow of its former self

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Fantastic people to work with, professional and knowledgeable. HCM is still a great product.

Cons

Culture has gone downhill and is sinking fast. Company focus is now on expansion so taking on more and more customers. In making Workday more attractive financially for customers resources are being reduced for customer-facing roles. All the power is in Pleasanton, so if you're in a region you're the tail wagging the dog. Not enough coordination across departments is causing confusion.

2.0
May 27, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Overall, the company is a good one. Our product offerings are best in our space, and the overall temperament of the company culture is above average. I also truly believe that our CEO's, Aneel and Dave, genuinely believe in our core values. This review is solely based on the current Talent Acquisition team/leadership.

Cons

Previous leadership in Talent Acquisition, while it may not have been perfect, was unifying, empowering and positive. The team felt driven and supported. It was indeed a "great place to work." There was transparency in the communications out to the team, and consistency in their message, mission and the treating employees with fairness and integrity. There has been many changes within the last 6+ months, and the general consensus is that our current leads/leadership is impersonal, calculating and cold. There are managers who would be prefer to not have to manage people but who are forced to in order to move up the ranks, and there are managers who should not have been promoted to a lead role because of a lack of experience. Along with that, there is a reorg going on in the group, and lots of movement. Both contract employees and full time are being treated as if they are quite disposable and feeling very unappreciated and unnerved. Morale is at an all time low and the overall vibe is quite toxic. Even people who act as if they are content have their eye on the market. A lot of us that have been here awhile feel if it wasn't broke, why try to fix it? Talent Acquisition and HR seem to have lost our bearing and we need to get back to our core values of integrity, collaboration, putting our customers/candidates and our employees first.

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