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      Workday

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      Workday reviews

      3.5

      59% would recommend to a friend

      (4,561 total reviews)
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      Aneel Bhusri

      59% approve of CEO

      42% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.9

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.8

      Work/Life balance

      3.8

      Compensation and benefits

      3.5

      Culture & values

      3.1

      Career opportunities

      2.9

      Senior management

      Workday has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 4,561 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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      5K reviews
      1.0
      Feb 14, 2017

      Join Workday at your own peril, all that glitters is not gold...

      Product specialist
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      CEO approval
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      Pros

      1) Cool and modern looking UI 2) HCM product sells itself, not so sure of the other products especially Financials. 3) Free snacks; but come-on how much snacks can you eat? 4) Great Halloween party

      Cons

      1) Level of politics in a company of this small size is simply unbelievable especially in the product side. Most of the old timers who architected and designed the products and brought the company to the level it is currently at, have left the company. This is a playground of extreme politics and blatant favoritism. 2) Success came too easy for Workday since SAP & Oracle apps sucked big time with the general trend to the cloud. This easy success has caused many of the management folks here at WD to get really arrogant and play extreme, petty politics. The fact that there are far too many middle-aged white women in management positions across the company, helps in increasing the degree of workplace politics. 3) In an attempt to grow fast, WD let the guard down and opened the flood gates while hiring; and promoted people to management levels based on who they knew/their connections rather than abilities. This has caused WD to become a "garbage recycle center" for "rejects" from Cisco, Oracle, Amazon and ex-PeopleSoft (the old boys club of PeopleSoft!). 4) CEO and top management are obessesed with company ratings on this website. Rumor is that, it is someone's full-time job within HR is to flag any negative reviews and get them removed. The CEO also sends out emails to employees "encouraging" them to take part in the "best places to work" survey. By hook or crook they want to paint a pretty picture of the company. Are they planning to put this company up for sale? 5) Based on an internal employee survey few months back, to identify reasons for poor employee morale, some managers were moved out of their management positions to other individual contributor roles. These managers should have been fired but instead, they were offered other roles. If by any chance you set up a skip-meeting with the VP/SVP of your group, your immediate manager gets to know about it instantaneously! So much for their transparency and open door policy! Almost everything seems to be an eye-wash or fake. Other companies that do not claim to be employee friendly have better processes and do not put on a show.

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      Workday Response
      9y
      Thank you for your feedback; it’s very much appreciated. I, along with the rest of the Workday leadership team, believe our success is measured by the degree to which we abide by our core values. As we continue to grow, this holds more true today than ever before. One of our core values is integrity, so it is concerning to hear you feel you’ve experienced otherwise in areas like internal politics or lack of transparency. I can assure you that Workday is a values-driven company above all, which is why monitoring reviews and surveying employees is so important to the leadership team. We do not remove negative reviews, as we value all of our employees’ feedback. If you feel comfortable sharing additional feedback, you can send a confidential email to employee.feedback@workday.com. Additionally, please feel free to reach out directly to me at Ashley.Goldsmith@workday.com.
      2.0
      Apr 29, 2016

      Pretty shell with rotten fruit inside

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good name to have on the resume Great products Free snacks Fun coworkers Workplace is pretty cool Lot of energy

      Cons

      Horrible managenent Unlimited PTO is a hoax. An absolute lie. No 401 K match Mid managers care more about their own growth than the team's or employees' growth. Very biased and very judgemental managers Lots of inner circles with older employees and it is impossible for new employees to fit in Proprietary technology which makes it impossible for employees to leave Workday Internal transfers are impossible as much as workday makes it look like its so easy to do it Big divide between teams Payroll team has the worst managers. Lot of politics, lot of favoritism. The lady managers seem very political

      3.0
      Aug 3, 2016

      Let's be fair

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      In all fairness to the negative reviews Workday has been receiving, there are certainly good things about this company that many other companies lack. Snacks in the kitchen, very friendly and helpful Workmates, and a brilliant program for recent college graduates make up some of Workday's greatest strengths. It's definitely not a Google or Facebook in terms of these perks, but hey, it's better than what most companies would have. Workday also has many clubs to help you connect with people that have common interests. For example, there's a group of Workmates that play board games every Wednesday night, and last I saw, some Workmates were gathering periodically after hours to play Super Smash Bros.

      Cons

      I do think many employees take their negative feedback to Glassdoor more recently is because some of these issues are true..negative feedback cannot be provided without retaliation from a manager, or more commonly, changes will either not occur or would not come as quickly as one would hope for. I also understand the frustration of working day and night, trying to achieve results, only to be met with no change in compensation, while someone else on your team gets it because they happen to be on more "visible" projects. I also know it may be difficult to trust management, during my 1 on 1's with my old manager, he had serious integrity issues, where he would slam someone else on my team behind his back, and pretend to be all cool and friendly with him. Unfortunately, as someone who was here for quite some time, I can say that the culture has definitely regressed, and that doesn't come as a surprise, since Workday believes in sacrificing profitability to keep hiring at such a rapid pace; with such rapid hiring it becomes difficult to nearly impossible to maintain the culture that Workday was once well known for. I do agree that in the end, if you are not happy at Workday, it definitely is in your better interest to seek another company where you think you will be happy at.

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