Workday reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(4,575 total reviews)
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Aneel Bhusri

60% approve of CEO

41% positive business outlook

Workday has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 4,575 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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2.0
Mar 22, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

My direct leadership team is supportive and encouraging. The health benefits pay are good.

Cons

If you can only work from home because of your family dynamic, Workday is not the place for you. There is no understanding or accommodations for working parents who have responsibilities for their children that makes going into the office very challenging from a work life balance and the ability to do you job during working hours. Expect to put in many hours in night making up for work that couldn’t get done because of your family schedule. Workday is making its employees pick their family obligations or a successful career at Workday. Both are not possible here.

1.0
May 4, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Not much at all.. company does a good job telling a story that is not accurate

Cons

Turnover at company is high for employees that have been there over 5 years. Also if you are not in the "in crowd" then you will be treated as such. The company talks a lot about "taking care" of the employees... that is a good lip service but not reality.

1.0
Dec 31, 2019

A sinking ship

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

I worked at Adaptive Insights Business Unit and what was once a quirky startup that had poker tables, a band that played every so often, parties for every sort of holiday that you could think of. There used to be a forward thinking idea of pushing better tools to produce software. There was incentives to stick around while workday absorbed the business unit.

Cons

The unit has changed into a large corporate structure where OKRs, organizational key results rule supreme. Middle managers weaponize OKRs for their personal gains. Middle managers are constantly looking for scapegoats, shifting blames and unwanted OKRs to other teams. The business unit constantly misses targets and therefore applies incredible pressure to the teams. Poor communication amongst managers, the constant need to fulfill one manager's requirements while the other is upset that your unable to fulfill their requirements. Managers publically insulting other teams. The software code is incredibly poorly written. Numberous security holes, use of very old software. Imagine working with very old school engineers who don't care to improve the setup nor are they really helping you to do your job. If your planning to do work here, most likely these engineers will sit around attempt criticize whatever work you do in an attempt to maintain relevance.

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