Workday Employee Reviews
Out of 3247 Workday employee reviews, 94% were positive. The remaining 6% were constructive reviews with the goal of helping Workday improve their work culture. The IT team, with 97% positive reviews, reports the best experience at Workday compared to all other departments at the company. The Communications team offered the most constructive feedback, with 33% of that department's reviews constructive in nature.
What does the leadership team need to get better at?
There's not a lot of mid level leadership power. Everything has to go "up the chain" before it can be enacted and that keeps things slow and unorganized.
Review from HR Dept
Customer service. Everyone in sales wants to achieve and exceed the goals set. New processes are welcome to drive effeciency and best practice , but leading with fear is not what drives results. t
Review from Sales Dept
Fair compensation, more of a customer focus, hire best talent, better communication, return to what made Workay great versus replicaiting the sins of Oracle and Salesforce.
Review from Sales Dept
There's a disconnect between the company's stated goals and the resources allocated to achieve them. For example, getting rid of talent and deep historical knowledge to save trivial amounts of money but at the employee's experience?
Review from HR Dept
Federal is a mess with the new leadership. The culture is being destroyed. Executive leadership in Pleasanton doesnt seem to recognize the issues. We have a toxic leader!
Review from Sales Dept
Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
more stock, higher base comp
Review from HR Dept
The market drmand has reduced and the type of customer buying is different from when Workday likely started out. The ability to make money is far less.
Review from Sales Dept
I noticed some inconsistencies in how compensation and promotions are handled, and I'd like to understand the process better.
Review from Finance Dept
The is no transparency with quotas. There is no benefit for tenure. A 33% reduction in assigned accounts should not tranlate to a higher quota.
Review from Sales Dept
I think that at the level I am at, my stock is low and im not at the midpoint - I think Workday has great benefits and takes care of their employees but pay $$++ for exec leadership and the comp for P4-M4 is not competitive
Review from HR Dept
What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
Communication skills! Many of my colleagues don't know how to talk to one another
Review from Customer Support Dept
skills, integrity and professionalism is lacking
Review from Product Dept
We need our leadership to stop getting in the way. Its enough to provude us with the objectives. We dont need constant checks and charts
Review from Product Dept
A lot of coworkers are great, but it can be very dividing between teams. And one of my workmates is rude and condescending.
Review from Communications Dept
There is not much excitement or drive in a lot of coworkers, most are just showing up to collect their pay
Review from Engineering Dept
What needs to change to make the company culture better?
Focus on communications and actually caring about the employee experience. Actual efforts beyond well-crafted messages from the leadership team. The constant org changes also don't help employees feel like they are in a stable and sane environment.
Review from Communications Dept
Managers need to be more involved and take action when workmates are not creating a positive environment.
Review from Communications Dept
Invest to education, provide time for personal project, they may help for company as well, less management levels between lowest and highest
Review from Engineering Dept
1. Review leadership capabilities and PeakOn scores. Some leaders 'grew up' at Workday and are ill-suited for the corporate challenges we now face. 2. Provide a coherent BT strategy and align 3. Enforce CoC - follow up on value-violations 4. Diversity for all - not just gender or spec. ethnicities
Review from IT Dept
We buy in to our own hype some times
Review from Engineering Dept
What would you improve about your company's interview process?
Too many steps (the process is too long - 5/6 interviews)
Review from Customer Support Dept
What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
It's hard to get the managers that I work with to provide direct feedback to me so I can change whatever is going wrong instead of going to higher levels of the organization
Review from HR Dept
Heavy shift towards profitability shifting away from historical values of employees and customers
Review from Operations Dept
typical leadership team disconnected from the rest of the company
Review from Communications Dept
Address the accumulated technical debt and do something about it
Review from Engineering Dept
manager of developer of analytic department stop complaining and complaining
What would you most like to see improved at your company?
Gaining more of a global mindset
Review from HR Dept
Consider career advancement while employees are working from home and less visible, especially when working hard to hire externally.
Review from Product Dept
more collaboration and less but in sit mentality
Review from Engineering Dept
Middle management, overwhelmed with projects and bad timing
Review from Engineering Dept
Clearly defined path to promotion and advancement
Review from Marketing Dept