Workiva reviews

4.0

74% would recommend to a friend

(738 total reviews)
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Julie Iskow

79% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Workiva has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 738 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Workiva 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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738 reviews
2.0
Apr 9, 2025

Used to be good but not anymore

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Work life balance is good. Global culture is still decent.

Cons

Unfair promotion and career progression. A lot of internal politics. Favoritism towards US region with no clear guideline on revenue sharing. Service oriented, not a place for sales org. Myopic APAC expansion. Product will start to lag behind without proper plan in place. A lot of people who don't know what they are doing.

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Workiva Response
1y
We appreciate your advice to management and will share it with them. As we remain focused on our global strategic objectives for growth, we always strive to hire and promote the best talent.
3.0
May 9, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

The company does well in promoting well-being to a very high standard. Health benefits are good. Some people are promoted in the CSM team who deserve it.

Cons

It's best to open up some of the internal roles for outside candidates to offer some variety in the people that get promoted, especially when it comes to senior leadership roles. It may need sometimes seem like people are being promoted because they're close to the higher beings of the organisation.

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Workiva Response
2y
Thank you for your feedback. We consistently post positions, both internally and externally. This is the best way to ensure we are bringing in new talent to drive innovative thinking and support career internal career mobility. We are always open to hearing more about ways we can improve the employee experience. Please reach out to your People and Business Partner if you would like to share more.
5.0
Feb 11, 2023

Great place to work!

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Pros

Phenomenal place to work. I’ve been at a number of companies during my sales career where most people are pessimistic about the company and it’s easy to see right through the BS. You don’t see that at Workiva and it’s so refreshing. Even in private conversations, literally everyone talks positively about the company. Yeah, you’ll hear a couple gripes about an internal software or something minor, but the problems are minuscule. Furthermore, the product strength in the market and reasonable expectations mean that if you actually put in the work, there’s a high likelihood that you’re going to do very well here, and even those who put in moderate work have a shot to meet goals. I’ve worked at other places where working your butt off still makes hitting your OTE a pipe dream. Walking into QBR’s or 1:1’s isn’t the dreaded pounding opportunity from sales managers like it sometimes is elsewhere. It’s actually collaborative and not punitive. They didn’t layoff during Covid, and they haven’t during this tech layoff era so far in late 2022/early 2023, and they won’t be. In fact, they’re hiring because of continued growth and product strength, which is pretty resilient against any economic downturns. It’s the work environment that is unfortunately dying around the world, but so far hasn’t here. The only threats to this changing would be if there was a major leadership shakeup where the wrong people were brought in, huge economic downturns, major geo-political or regulatory events effecting the industry, or the most likely of possibilities, if a typical scumbag Private Equity firm ever successfully took over one of the few good companies left in tech to go and milk it dry (which one looked into and was apparently shut down last year). Outside of those events, should be a great place to work for years ahead!

Cons

Face value pay could be a bit better, but it’s just slightly under avg SaaS. I say face value, because I think your chances are a lot better to succeed here than most companies promising a slightly better OTE. So, would you rather have a face value OTE at $240k and a 30% chance of hitting/exceeding your number, or a $220k OTE and a 60%+ chance of meeting or exceeding that. Those were literally my options when I came here, and I’d make the same decision again in a heartbeat. I’ve made moves in my career based off face value financial incentives before and regretted it. I’d much rather work at a company with a great culture, realistic expectations, an excellent product that people want to buy, where you’re not stressed that this week could be your tech companies turn to announce a mass layoff, and where I can make up for a slightly lower OTE, by performing better against my quota than I would have at other places. Only other things, pay is monthly (which is very strange, but again, one of those minor things to complain about). We’re also not a Microsoft workplace because they’re a competitor, so we can’t use things like Microsoft OneNote which would be a massive help for organizing notes and having them all at your fingertips.

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Workiva Response
3y
Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. We are happy to hear about your experience!
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