Workday reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(4,579 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 4,579 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
Jul 14, 2015

Very Political

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Excellent Technology and innovation. HCM is the bread and butter. The company is growing but has an Oracle/SAP feel to it...very tough to break in culture wise

Cons

Extremely low pay, poor benefits and immature management team. If you are outside of Pleasanton, it's very hard to figure out how to navigate, most managers assume that you should "just figure it out". In addition, territories are being cut so you may end up with very few accounts to call on and yet your number to reach Quota is huge...it's unrealistic. Very little in the way of upper management support.

2.0
Jun 28, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good product, smart people, good tools to leverage.

Cons

Small territories, long sales cycles, few products to sell or add on. Less than 20% of Account Executives achieve quota 2 +years to sell a new new account and then in 6 mo it is move to an install team. Small territories

1.0
Nov 6, 2023

Do not fall for the hype

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Some people that you will work with

Cons

Management, Politics, Toxicity, Lack of operational stability This place is hyped up but do not fall for it. After working tirelessly for close to four years to build a whole team from the ground up, I was asked to leave with a meagre severance package. The initial shock was unfathomable. Every person that I worked with including my own team (that I also build from scratch) was shattered and thought I was joking when I said I was being asked to leave. The impact that we had created as a team was large and the change that I orchestrated was felt through out the company and I had won accolades and many recommendations and reviews for it. My manager knew nothing about our business area but was still asked to lead a significant charter including my team which she knew absolutely nothing about. She was close to a certain someone in the C-suite. She was asked to leave a few months after I left but the damage was done and irreversible. No one questioned her and I had to leave a thriving team and work behind. Now they have opened a role again and it is the same role that I had. Why wasn't I given that opportunity when my team and I proved our worth so many times through such impactful work? It is dirty politics. It is a SHAM! Please BEWARE!!

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Workday Response
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Thanks so much for taking the time to share your experience at Workday with us. If you'd be willing, we’d like to hear more of your feedback. If you could kindly email employee.relations@workday.com - we look forward to hearing from you.
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