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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2.0
Nov 1, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

1. Awesome Snack Program 2. Friendly People 3. Great place for starting out I am thankful for workday for giving me my first job out of college.

Cons

I've started working at Workday straight out of college about 3 1/2 years ago. Overall I've had managers that were promoted from the within and had very little experience in actually developing their employees. Every time I asked for a promotion, my managers would give some sort of excuse as why I am not eligible to be promoted to even level 2. I have mentored others and developed features with absolutely no help. What's even worse is that people on the same org as me get promoted because they have better manager. Over the years, I have become demoralized with all the politics and excuses. Workday falls true to the adage that you have to jump companies to get those promotions/raises. 1. Very little upward mobility. 2. Declining culture. 3. Lots of politics 4. Inexperienced Managers 5. Poor growth prospects

1.0
Oct 11, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I have to have 20 words so this is the only reason I have anything to add in this area

Cons

Some employees think they are the best of the best because they work for workday and think their way is the best way and not open minded to others opinions or views.

2.0
Sep 24, 2017

Not all it's cracked up to be

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Management is good at, caring and responsive to the concerns and needs of it's employees. Software is updated every six months and the employees are required to update their certification.

Cons

The problem is with the employees themselves. There seems to be an unwritten rule to never ask a question if you need help. The response you will receive, if you ask a question, is to dig deeper into the software and you will find the answers. The consultants are given the same training the clients are given, the examples in Community. This needs to change as Workday signs larger clients. Workday needs to invest in training consultants and the more complex issues of larger clients. There is really no training for employees. If you come from a company that really trains employees on the system, has a mentoring system where you can reach out to others for answers and really has collaboration among it's employees, then Workday is not for you. There are tremendous amount of private clubs in Workday and if you are not in one, of those clubs, you are not a value to the company. Most everyone is out for themselves and the next promotion. I have personally attended meeting and events and never had anyone even speak to me. Not even a current or former manager. People will not hesitate to stab you in the back or throw you under the rug to protect themselves or to elevate themselves in front of management. You will be unable to reach utilization because of partner involvement. Partners will get the biggest majority of the work at Workday. You will spend a lot of time sitting on the bench without a lot of effort from management in getting you onto a project. If you are use to working and receiving you bonus, you might want to consider a partner firm instead of Workday.

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