Workday Software Enginerer reviews

3.4

59% would recommend to a friend

(243 total reviews)
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Aneel Bhusri

51% approve of CEO

31% positive business outlook

Software Enginere employees have rated Workday with 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 243 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Enginere professionals have a good working experience there. Workday is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Enginere professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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243 reviews
5.0
Apr 6, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Dog friendly (mostly), flexible hours, flexible vacation days, flexible working remotely. Family-friendly

Cons

Sometimes different organizations don't work that well together. Different teams aren't entirely helpful to each other sometimes

4.0
Nov 11, 2016

Recruitment process

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Workday has great people. It has become a refuge for ex-Oracle and ex-Amazon employees, where employee abuse is rampant. In contrast to these companies, employees are treated very fairly, unlimited PTO is real (if used wisely and you get your work done). The company is doing very well with HCM, almost all tech companies are using Workday.

Cons

Other products (such as Financials) are not doing as well as HCM. It's not like they are failing, but there is much more to be achieved, and we will see if the gamble will pay off. When it comes to recruiting for engineers, the hiring bar is wildly inconsistent. I know some crazy talented people who got rejected first round, and then some mediocre people who breezed their way in. This is unacceptable if we want to grow the company in a healthy way. There are some crazy great engineers here, who are balanced out by mediocre talent. Like everyone else has said, pay is below the market. This can be fixed if we stop hiring masses, and choose engineers more selectively.

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