Workday reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(4,584 total reviews)
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Aneel Bhusri

62% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

Workday has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 4,584 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
Feb 16, 2017

Sales Unfriendly

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Has potential but things are shifted around way too often. It is difficult to maintain consistency to be effective when momentum is stifled.

Cons

The best accounts are shifted to certain favorites. A plan is developed and then changed without giving it a chance. Knee-jerk reactions would be the best way to describe it.

2.0
Jan 10, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Good ideas and people. Benefits are competitive. Workplace is good with snacks and relaxed. Pay is decent for East Bay location and close to BART. Growing market for cloud HR and financial products. UI is good on par with consumer websites.

Cons

Top down decision making everywhere be it in product management or technical leadership. Central technical architects take all decisions who do not involve in daily scrums which leaves team looking for help always. Very slow to get things done. Not setup for innovation to foster. They spend too much money on operations for a cloud company. No transparency who is leaving the company, customers. Performance is not all par with consumer websites.

2.0
Jan 3, 2015

Look for hidden signals in interview, ok for entry level

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good location because i lived very close to the office. Safe walk from Bart. Some people were fantastic but mostly other newer employees. Certain parts of the company that really have the described culture.

Cons

Beware if management chain from Peoplesoft or the startup. Your manager may not know how to lead and manage, if that matters to you. The people from the startup years seem to exclude newer employees. The former Peoplesoft people also are their own clique. Its like the cool kids, the sort of cool kids, and everyone trying to be the cool kids. Other employees from my new hire group expressed this concern to me after hire. They described it like high school. Your manager may be very technically competent but an incompetent manager of people, promoted just because they were from startup. If experienced, be prepared to work with less experienced management. After a year some are looked down upon, still don't know anything. In some groups don't expect much training. You must figure out almost everything on your own. It get worse, not better, over time, so left company. Don't expect a clear career progression. Watch out for management that are their to protect themselves. This is a very me first culture.

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