Workday Software Developer reviews

3.4

56% would recommend to a friend

(275 total reviews)
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Aneel Bhusri

51% approve of CEO

30% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated Workday with 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 275 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Workday is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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275 reviews
5.0
Apr 20, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible work hours, co-workers who want to help you succeed.

Cons

Honestly... nothing. Specific to workday, I can't identify any.

2.0
Mar 23, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Workday is a great company if you want to be a cog in a giant machine, churning out code and making the big bucks. I'll admit, I think Workday is one of the higher paying companies in the East Bay at the moment. You may even climb the ranks, fast, if you're interested in constant politicking and back-scratching. But if you want a company where voices are heard and personality is valued, this isn't the company for you.

Cons

I'm going to preface this by saying that I've been an employee of Workday for 4+ years. I've had close to 10 managers, been on many distinct teams, and grown with Workday through numerous reorgs. Workday is vastly different now than when i first joined. It is no longer a "startup" culture, but recruiters or hiring managers will try to convince you otherwise. They'll say we're a successful company but without the bureaucracy of large corporate culture. I don't know if they've regurgitated that line so many times that they're starting to believe it themselves? Truth is, Workday is definitely a large company with many micro-cultures and so much bureaucracy. Your experience at this company will vary from team to team, it will be entirely dependent on your manager. And internal transfers are hard. With internal transfers, they will try at any cost to chip at your salary since they are certainly not going to compete against themselves (and trust me, I've been a part of many internal transfers). I'm not comfortable disclosing what team I work on, but let's just say my team has hemorrhaged an astounding number of developers and QA (let's just say we've lost more developers than the number of fingers on both your hands in the past year alone, and we've lost 80% of our QA), and the only answer management has for us is that there's nothing wrong. That said, I've been on awesome teams prior to this - in Workday. It all depends on management. I hope this helps!

3.0
Jan 27, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You get to work in cutting edge technology areas

Cons

very aggressive, It's very easy to lose track of what's happening around you.

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