Workday Talent Management Reviews & Product Details

Workday has lot of functionalities and features addressing the requirements of the enterprise.

It eliminated the need to different tools to manager different requirements like, Talent management, Payroll management, Hiring, Employee benefits and so.

Tool has great Graphical user interface.

Easy to manage. Comes as SAAS platform, which eliminates constant upgrade or maintenance hassle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The tool is very costly for one. The tool doesn't allow any customizations but at least it should allow personalization to tune the tool to company requirements.

Navigation could be better. The back option doesn't work as intended.

Hiring process is not transparent.

Need improvement in Referral functionality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Org charts interface , interactive job info menus, compensation , performance etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Report build up process is complex and requires Workday experienced/certified consultants Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Workday offers to write the goals for the individual employees for the year.

While writing the goal, it also has the functionality to set the priority.

It also helps to store the employee information, including their skills.

When an employee refers someone, it also stores the same information.

It helps to find the co-worker information like their work location, contact details, etc.

It also allows managers to do performance reviews of employees. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Workday needs improvement on UI and usability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The APIs provided by Workday provide all of the tools required to automate and integrate with local systems in real-time. The structure of these services can be a bit clunky - while it looks like they are working on REST implementations, the bulk of the work still needs to be done using SOAP APIs. That said, with a little bit of effort, there is very little this hosted solution provides that cannot be handled through their APIs, making powerful automation and custom solutions possible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I mentioned the SOAP services - I actually don't automatically see this as a downside. While they have gone out of vogue in favor of REST APIs, I've always found SOAP straightforward to work with. However, there are a couple of downsides. First off, support for SOAP is slowly going away in modern platforms (.Net Core, for example, is missing some key elements for full support of WS-Security). Second, the services offered by Workday are ENORMOUS. As a result, some automated code gen tools (notably Visual Studio's "Add Service Reference" function) can get overwhelmed by the size. I found that after adding certain Workday WSDLs in Visual Studio, the IDE slowed and eventually crashed when trying to look at the generated code.

Finally, while there is extensive documentation for these services, it is often not very useful. A field might be labeled as needing to be a valid id type, but give no indication as to what the possible valid id types are. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that I can see my reviews (as well as manager if the setting alllows) to track my goals and improvements throughout the year/quarter. All of the reviews are in one place and makes them easily comparable. I also like that you can customize your dashboard based on what your companies need is. There is also a "give feedback feature" where you can post positive experiences with coworkers on their profile for the company to recognize. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The down side is not being able to make your feedback private to certain individuals, it always is seen by manager, hiring manager, director, etc where I think sometimes the feedback is beneficial if only that person knows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Customer service was friendly and extremely helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It can be a hard system to learn and takes a bit. It is sometimes hard to navigate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is very easy to navigate through and organized way of keeping all employee information in one location. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It does allow you to make changes or resubmit documents if you make a mistake. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

workday definitely bring fresh outlook and feel. Have potential to become market leader in very short time with the capabilities. Tool provides lot of features by clubbing multiple needs of an organization.

By bring everything under one umbrella, both users and management benefit from financial as well as usability perspective. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bit costly. Hiring and referral process is not transparent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We can now keep track of performance reviews that tie into all of our employee profiles. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not as customizable as we may like as our company scales even larger. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The software was pretty user-friendly and has many different features you can customize for your company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There were times we would have technical difficulties, which would cause problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.