Great Work Life Balance, Teamwork, and Culture - Anonymous employee Workday Employee Review

5.0
6 Sept 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Workday has brought in several new senior leaders in the past twelve months and they are implementing great new ideas. Great flexibility in work hours. My boss strongly discourages working on the weekend unless absolutely necessary and if it must happen tries to make up for it the next week. Our team added three new managers this year to ensure that we had a more support from management. Promotions were given to more senior people within the department but certainly not based on seniority as other reviews have stated. Management is open to new ideas. They are slower to implement to ensure that all sides have been thought out so this is not necessarily a bad thing. Fun culture with happy people. Think cantinas (happy hours), ping pong, fuz ball, free food, etc. If you volunteer 50 hours they will give $1000 to a charity of your choice.

Cons

Benefits are slow to catch up. Just now offering a 50% 401k match. No short term disability or parental leave (important for the younger generations they are trying to attract). Once you are hired in there are no annual increases. You receive an annual stock award based on performance, however you must be here for several years for it to vest. So negotiate your salary well. Stinks for those of us who didn't know this coming in.

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Cons

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Thank you for sharing your experience at Workday. It is fantastic to hear you've enjoyed the culture. We are pleased to hear life as a Workmate is a good one!
2.0
24 Jun 2026
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Pros

Great culture at the peer to peer level. Excellent learning opportunities, good benefits and great name for resume.

Cons

Pretend to be transparent but a lot of smoke & mirrors. Significant cuts to comp plans & commissions that resulted in challenging pay cuts. While salaries were not reduced the OTE is no longer achievable and it’s a difference of thousands monthly, can’t even sell stock because it’s tanked. That being said, we’re disappointed in comp and stock but grateful to be employed because It’s no longer a matter of if you’ll be laid off but when.

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