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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3.0
Dec 4, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

- Pay - Unlimited PTO

Cons

- Garbage proprietary programming language - "Technical leaders" with experience only in said garbage proprietary language - Slow development—calls themselves agile, but they are really waterfall - No ability to innovate within the technical ecosystem - Very behind on the times (from a technical perspective)

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Workday Response
6mo
We appreciate you taking the time to share your review. To help ensure every Workmate has a great employee experience, we encourage you to share your feedback with your manager or a People & Purpose representative as soon as possible. If you're open to providing more insight, you can also email our Employee Relations team at employee.relations@workday.com or use the SpeakUp reporting hotline to share concerns anonymously.
2.0
Dec 4, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Gain AI experience and big corporate experience. visibility into aggressive growth type of company

Cons

Too many acquisitions leads to layoffs. Everyone mostly keeps to themselves and there is no real sense of culture in office

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Workday Response
6mo
Thank you for sharing this feedback. We take all feedback, positive or negative, very seriously at Workday. We strive to provide a welcoming, supportive environment for all of our employees. We’re available to discuss your concerns and explore any opportunities for improvement. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to us directly at our Employee Relations mailer (employee.relations@workday.com) to discuss your experience in more detail. Thank you for bringing this to our attention, we will do our best to address any issues you may have encountered.
2.0
Dec 3, 2025

Sinking ship - avoid at all costs

Recommend
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Pros

The people on my team are nice. That’s about it

Cons

- Leadership is completely lost and uninspiring: CEO doesn’t know anything about tech and AI innovation. Why’s he getting paid over $100 million a year salary? Only knows how to cut costs by taking things from the minions. He is hiring a bunch of sr. VPs to do the “innovating” and they’re all left overs that failed in their previous roles at Google Cloud. All of them are so uninspiring and fake. All this leadership team can do is pay astronomical prices to acquire other companies. In-house innovation is dead at Workday - Dead stock: stock is going nowhere. Even when we announce layoffs and acquisitions, it doesn’t even go up - No longer customer-centric: They still say customers are a core value but it’s actually not true at all. PMs no longer address customer enhancement requests and just do whatever the confused leadership tells them to which is pump out agents that our customers don’t even want - Cutting our benefits one by one: cut our $50 monthly wellness credit, cut travel budget, cut bagels, cut team event budgets, cut mid-year promotions & raises, and now health insurance costs have increased by 3x - Lack of recognition: You can work yourself like crazy and not get any recognition because you’re not working on the sexy buzzwords leadership is currently obsessed about. They also cut mid-year promotion and raise cycle this year. Morale is down the drain and feels like there’s no point in working hard - Silent layoffs: every month there are silent layoffs (to avoid WARN notice) and top performers are impacted by these causing confusion and panic. Everyone’s thinking whether they’re next - Offshoring like crazy: Watch out if you’re based out of the USA because if you’re training someone in India, you’re next on the chopping block. Company doesn’t care about quality and customer satisfaction anymore, they just want to cut operating costs

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Workday Response
6mo
Firstly, thank you for leaving a review. We are grateful that you gave us your opinion so we can contemplate and determine ways to make our Workmates feel respected, have transparent communication and improve the overall experience. Feel free to contact our Employee Relations mailer (employee.relations@workday.com) if you wish to speak to us more about your experience.
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