Workday Reviews

Cons

None, none, none, none, and done. Sorry 5 word minimum.

Cons

-They take advantage of being the "best place to work" by grossly under paying employees. on avg. 20-30K less than competitors.
-Promotions are extremely limited and difficult to attain.
-With recent leadership changes in the sales/presales organization there is less emphasis on the employees and a lot more on the bottom line. There have been cut backs and many employees internally are not pleased.
-Choose Workday if making money is NOT your priority.

Cons

Not the place to go if you want to advance your career. I love the work, but Workday has been the worst career choice in my life. No way to get ahead. Look elsewhere if you want to grow. If you want to do the same job under frequently changing managers and empty promises, join the team.

Cons

Growing company, so might not be for people who like the status quo or don’t like change.

Snacks run out early in the week, so not so much left by Thursday/Friday. Have to pay for parking.

Cons

The negative reviews are right. I know you’re thinking “its a top place to work.” But those numbers are skewed. Don’t be fooled like me. Wday sends those surveys to employees they expect will rate them favorably. Here’s more truth:

1. Nepotism is real here and there’s no plans to stop it.
2. “Its not what you know, its who you know. Hard work gets you no where, sucking up and strong relationships do..”- Workday Proverb
3. Backstabbing/Political Culture. The comments of blacklisting, HR turning on you and career suicide are true
4. This is not a place to “grow” your career if that’s what you want pick a different company. This is a place to build skills and move on.

Cons

Management is deceptive; they will say one thing to your face, but their actions show otherwise. They ask you to be transparent with them, but they will use the information you give them to their advantage (ie. if they know you will eventually be moving on from Workday, they will not give you any raises or compensation for your past year's review even though an annual review is based on past year's performance and not what you will be doing in the future). DO NOT tell management anything regarding your future plans.

Some workers on certain teams are incompetent and lazy. Will take long vacations and knowing that their vacation date is coming up, will delay their work and not finish because they know someone else will pick up their slack. Some will always wait until the end of sprints to log bugs or start work so that they can pretend that they were super busy the whole sprint; therefore, the need to roll over stories.

People are being hired just because they are related to someone who already works here or is someone's friend. For example, the qualification for a QA Engineer job here is at least 5 years minimum in QA. In the QA industry, if you have actually been working for 5 years, you would know what TDD or BDD or other commonly used QA terms mean. I have seen QAs in meetings ask what TDD or BDD mean and have asked for explanations. This tells me that they probably got the job through a family/friend and/or faked their resume to get the job.

Annual raises is based on how much you suck up to management, and how much they like you. Even if you do all your work and take everything they dump on you, if management doesn't like you, your raises won't be as high as someone who did less work but is a friend of management.

People using all sorts of excuses on a regular basis to work from home or not come in to work. Here are a few that I've seen:
-It's hard to turn my steering wheel, I'll be wfh
-I need to stay home for a package or go home to sign for a package
-I need to go feed my dog/cat
-I have a haircut appointment today, i'll be wfh
-Traffic is heavy right now, i'll be wfh

The best place to work for award? That's total bull. It's what management sends out to their employees every year and asking them to fill out. Of course most employees will always give the company they work for a super high rating.

Cons

- Scarce resources spread among many product lines leaves some teams without proper tooling support to compete in the market
- Technology lags behind leading companies outside the big enterprise companies
- Influx of employees is impacting the overall drive of the average employee
- Career / employment experience can vary heavily from team to team

Cons

We innovate quickly here so there's an expectation to come up with solutions without much guidance from management but Workday rewards you in spades if you can deliver.

Cons

Inability to manage up. They also over promise and under deliver when it comes to the recruitment process and once it comes to reality in the company.

Cons

All the greatness of this company is easily erased from the employee's experience because it has terrible upper and lower management. The finance team in the Salt Lake City site is a perfect example. The hiring manager brought in several employees from her former company and favoritism became an issue . Some excellent talent left due that practice. Managers had sudden changes of heart and from being an excellent employee one day, the next day you were terrible and were bullied until you resign even if you were a manager. Level 1 managers could not manage effectively due to being micro managed. If you disagreed, you were now that terrible employee despite of having had success at other and bigger companies. The teams in SLC have not been able to adapt and assimilate the great culture and values that this great California based company has.