Workday

What Workday does

Workday sells an enterprise cloud platform for managing people, money, and agents — HR, finance, payroll, planning, and analytics. Its Illuminate AI platform expanded Sep 16, 2025 with new AI agents; Sana AI was acquired Nov 4, 2025; and Workday Build launched Jun 2, 2026 so developers can build and verify AI agents. Public on NASDAQ:WDAY.

What it is like to work at Workday

Workday runs a large Pleasanton campus but has been shedding office space, signaling post-pandemic work-style shifts and a mixed Bay Area posture. Blind reviews credit "great work life balance, great workmates, culture and benefits and perks," but flag that "company direction unclear. Morale is down and less growth opportunities" — a tension amplified by recent leadership turmoil.

What Workday pays

Public RSUs anchor comp. Levels.fyi shows Software Engineer packages ranging from about $139K at P1 to $555K+ at P6, with HR roles around $274-283K at P4-P5. As a mature public company, target higher levels (P5/P6) for maximum total compensation, since level moves are worth far more than incremental raises, and value RSUs against WDAY's recent volatility.

How hiring works at Workday

The process averages 29 days across 1,261 submissions — the slowest in this cohort. Ophy AI's 2026 guide reports engineering and product roles trending toward four to six rounds: recruiter screen, technical phone/virtual, system design, behavioral, plus AI-specific loops for Illuminate roles. The measured cadence reflects large-company process rather than an unusually high technical bar.

Growth & trajectory

FY26 (ending Jan 31, 2026) total revenue was $9.552B, up 13.1% YoY, with subscription revenue of $8.833B up 14.5%. Workday employs more than 20,800 people globally. Growth is steady but decelerating relative to the AI-datacenter bloc, which is precisely the pressure driving its AI acquisitions and 2026 leadership reset.

Risks to know

Workday fired CEO Carl Eschenbach on Feb 6, 2026 without cause, "just two days after announcing layoffs for 2% of its workforce," sending the stock to a three-year low and returning co-founder Aneel Bhusri. Feb 2025 layoffs cut 1,750 employees tied to an AI reorg, and Pleasanton offices are being sold at a loss. Expect at least a couple of quarters of transition noise.

Who thrives at Workday (and who should not)

Thrives: AI engineers who want to ship agentic AI at HR/finance scale via Illuminate, Build, and Sana; people who prefer Bhusri-vintage steadiness over the prior era's market-pivot pressure; and Bay Area employees who don't need a large campus commute. Should not join: candidates spooked by a CEO firing tied to AI-spending bets, engineers needing immediate roadmap clarity, and those who wanted the old Pleasanton-campus cultural identity, which is being downsized.

Roles Workday is hiring for

The roles Workday is most actively hiring right now in our index, with a live count and the salary guide for each:

The full board of open roles — with comp and location on every posting — is at the top of this page.

The signals behind this page

The hiring picture here is read from 151 live Workday postings in our index (refreshed weekly); 100% are remote-friendly, and in a recent sample 27 disclose a pay-transparency band. The culture, growth, and interview detail above is researched and cited; the open-roles board is live from our jobs index.

Sources

• Workday FY26 fourth-quarter and full-year results ($9.552B)
• Workday fires CEO, seeks to digest AI acquisitions — ChannelDive
• Workday layoffs: 1,750 let go amid AI shakeup — SalesforceBen
• Workday Software Engineer salary — Levels.fyi
• Workday completes acquisition of Sana (Nov 4, 2025)