Workday Reviews

Pros

If anything, Workday is great at three things - having fun, rewarding talent, and creating a great product. The engineering staff is brilliant and great ideas are rewarded and embraced by management. The engineering culture is 'no divas, no cowboys' and this encourages teams to cultivate growth in new members as opposed to isolating them in the shadow of senior team members. Workday engineers are less concerned with job titles and more concerned about collaborating to create a stellar product which we can all truly believe in.

Advice to Management

Management is doing a stellar job - they take team building seriously and they have very stringent hiring processes which ensure that we only hire the best.

Pros

Culture, Technology, market conditions, leadership, customers, swagg (I've got about a dozen shirts already!)

Advice to Management

Keep doing what you're doing guys!!!

Pros

Great company culture, work-life balance, benefits

Pros

Its all good until 2017.. Good Benefits, good package

Advice to Management

Hire the best, rather than hire/promote the people who you know from before.

Pros

I've been at Workday for some time now and I have to say, I'm excited about what's going on in talent acquisition.

1. Up until now, goals and expectations haven't been clear. I feel there's support to ensure (despite tough conversations), we have clear goals and objectives that bring together capacity, speed and experience.

2. Management has been supportive of my learning opportunities from an upcoming summit to bring all 100+ of us together to hear ground breaking speakers to building better practices and skills to really compete for the best.

3. I know tough conversations are hard, but I appreciate that direction and guidance has been clearer than ever. Some of it is hard to accept, but with reflection, I realize change isn't easy, but necessary.

Ultimately, the pros are really pointed at the fact that I am respected, we are having better conversations to collaborate and there is huge investment in my learning opportunities.

I also feel Workday as a whole has a great story to tell. Comparing to other software providers (new and old), I feel Workday's value proposition is clear. We are disrupting the human capital space, and now leveraging the power of data and transactions to help other applications and companies solve really hard problems.

Advice to Management

Please keep the changes in talent moving forward. I like the fact that I know where I stand, there's huge investment in skills development and I appreciate the respect that's in place right now.

Pros

I love Workday, I love the people and up to recently the values.
Workday has a great company culture with an exciting and emerging product range. I truly believe our founders and CEO's David and Aneel believe in the company’s values as do most of great people I have had the pleasure of working with. While challenges naturally exist when you are partnering with business stakeholders I can say without hesitation that recruiters in Workday are respected and valued by business partners/hiring managers. This review is not something I could ever have imagined writing abut Workday.

Advice to Management

Create SMART goals, provide guidance and training to TA leaders so they can be more confident, consistent and enable us to raise our standards

Treat all employees’ INCLUDING contract employees with dignity and appreciation. We are on the front line telling the Workday story, also the valley is a small community.

Pros

I have been impressed with how Workday leaders and employees live and breath the core values. Very customer focused!! We are growing at a high rate and growing pains are natural. Everyone seems to acknowledge them and focused on getting the company to the right place. Strong sense of "team" and wanting everyone to be successful.

Pros

- Market leader in its core business
- Wonderful products. Customers love it !
- Great team mates
- Good work/life balance
- Stock price at 105 ! - helps weather the pain !
- Interesting work ( if you know the right people )
- Great location ( new BART and 580/680 interchange )
- Some managers are genuinely care about their teams and stand up against upper management whims. Of course some get cut down and leave as they can't take it anymore, others just submit to the dictates and survive.

Advice to Management

- CEO should wake up to see the reality in Engineering. Just because products are selling great doesn't mean all is well. There is a reason why most of the senior engineers are leaving. Bring back previous management.
- HR can improve their act. We are market leaders in HCM space!
- Customer Support department needs to be revamped. Half of the support analysts don't know what they are doing. They just shiver when the top manager is on every case (literally)
- Certainly miss Dave's openness and frank conversations
- Create a genuine feedback loop - not just namesake - and be ready to hear honest critical opinions. Employees are your friends !

Pros

Management cares about its workers and is flexible.

Pros

A major player in the HCM world, and coming in strong to the financials world keeps you at the forefront of the industry.

Also, Workday really does care about its people. The salaries are good, great benefits (healthcare, PTO, stocks, etc.) and they have many perks - like discount services in the area, and their snack program.

Advice to Management

The hiring practices need help: too many times I've seen people come in who presented well / had flashy resumes only to get into the trenches with them to find out that they know almost nothing about how to do the job they were hired for - even after EXTENSIVE training / assistance. Frankly, it would appear that many have misrepresented their achievements at other companies so they would get the Workday job. As the hiring decision is often made by the department managers who have head count open it would benefit all concerned if they got a crash course on how to read / evaluate job candidates better as the interview guidelines you send out don't seem to be cutting it.

Also, with regards to the perks: snacks and multiple yearly events are nice, but I would prefer to see the employee programs budget reimagined so it contributes a bit more to quality of life rather than just entertainment. Such as Ott lighting or better natural lighting in the offices (those fluorescents make working in the office very tiring), better seating (our desks keep getting smaller and smaller with each floor plan shuffle), or shuttles from the high populated Workday employee cities - San Jose, Concord,/Walnut Creek, etc. Yes, these are all big expenses, but I'd gladly trade the gifted Coke, Cheese Nips, Halloween Party, etc. for more me-time to read or listen to music to and from work each day.