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Workday is a leading enterprise platform that helps organizations manage their most important assets – their people and money. The Workday platform is built with AI at the core to help customers elevate people, supercharge work, and move their business forever forward. Workday is used by more than 10,500 organizations around the world and across industries – from medium-sized businesses to more than 60% of the Fortune 500. read more

EMPLOYEE PARTICIPANTS: 925

TOTAL RATINGS: 20745

CEO: Carl Eschenbach

Carl Eschenbach Workday CEO Rating

Workday's CEO, Carl Eschenbach, has 872 employee ratings and a score of 89/100, placing them in the Top 5% of similar size companies on Comparably with 10,000+ Employees and Top 5% of other companies in San Francisco. When breaking the CEO score down by factors such as department, gender, and ethnicity, we see that females at Workday rate Carl Eschenbach higher than males, giving the CEO a score of 91/100.

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Where This Score Ranks Workday's CEO Rating

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Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach Bio

Carl Eschenbach is CEO at Workday, and has been a member of the company’s board of directors since 2018. Carl joined Workday in December of 2022, serving as Co-CEO alongside Co-Founder Aneel Bhusri before becoming sole CEO in February of 2024.

Carl has more than 35 years of experience leading and scaling successful technology companies. Prior to Workday, Carl was a general partner for more than six years at venture capital firm Sequoia Capital. Previously, Carl spent 14 years at VMware, Inc. in various roles including president, chief operating officer, acting chief financial officer, and executive vice president of worldwide field operations. Prior to joining VMware in 2002, Carl held various sales management positions with Inktomi, 3Com Corporation, Lucent Technologies, Inc., and EMC.

Who Ranks Workday's CEO Rating the Highest?

Department - Admin 97/100

Department - Customer Success 94/100

Department - Customer Support 93/100

Who Ranks Workday's CEO Rating the Lowest?

Department - Communications 59/100

Department - Business Development 76/100

Tenure - Over 10 Years 80/100

Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach At a Glance

The CEO score provides an understanding of how employees feel about the CEO’s leadership style and effectiveness at Workday.

Based on 872 ratings, Carl Eschenbach ranks right above Salesforce's CEO, Marc Benioff.

Workday's CEO is highly regarded by the Admin department, the Customer Success department, and the Customer Support department. However, the Communications department, the Business Development department, and employees who have been at the company Over 10 Years have a less favorable view of the CEO and believe there is room for improvement. Overall, the CEO score has remained stable over the last 90 days.