Workday reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(4,576 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 4,576 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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1.0
Aug 1, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The best technology and software in this industry. Company is moving in the right direction to take over the enterprise software market

Cons

Terrible pay, benefits, and culture. If you worked at PeopleSoft, or are one of the rare "chosen ones" who happen to fall into favor with the PeopleSofters, you walk on water. You get all of the promotions, merit, bonuses, stock, and compensation. You can be in the field and have a reputation of being awesome, but your direct management team won't recognize you, promote you, pay you, or develop you. Dave Duffield is definitely no longer around, and he took his culture and values with him, no matter what the company wants you to believe. Taking your comments all the way to senior leadership just gets you black balled and retaliated against. This is from personal experience, as after I raised my concerns, a large piece of compensation I was promised was mysteriously denied by upper management with no explanation given.

1.0
Jan 7, 2016

Not what it seems

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There is still some legacy family-driven culture left from the Dave Duffield PSFT days. Halloween, bring kids to work, etc. If you want to learn how people manage up, this is the place. Products are good, customers are good. There are some really good people working there.

Cons

Extremely political, hypocritical leadership and a back-stabbing culture with many PSFT, Oracle and SAP leaders and for some reason tenure--not results--carries more weight. Hierarchical, can't get decisions made, lack of respect and authenticity. It's a strange place--and one that I'm happy to never set foot in again. Senior HR leadership weak and disconnected. Poor compensation well below market.

3.0
Mar 31, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

We used to have a strong team that collaborated and worked closely with our different organizations. The culture was very positive, and we really had a great work/life balance.

Cons

We recently had Carl join our leadership team and everyone seems to live in fear for their jobs. Also, they claim they only laid off a small number of people. They are still laying off people that are top performers one by one quietly. It is very sad how this culture changed so quickly.

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