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An enterprise cloud platform for human resources, finance, planning and AI agents.

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About the company

Legal name

Workday, Inc.

Founded

2005

Headquarters

Pleasanton, California, United States

Chief Executive Officer

Aneel Bhusri

Listed on

Nasdaq: WDAY

Employees

More than 21,000 at January 31, 2026

FY2026 revenue

US$9.552 billion

FY2026 total assets

US$18.074 billion

Customers

More than 11,500 organisations

Workday provides cloud applications for human capital management, financial management, spend, planning and enterprise AI.

Its platform serves more than 11,500 organisations, including more than 65% of the Fortune 500, with over 75 million users under contract.

Workday reported US$9.552 billion in fiscal 2026 revenue and a global workforce of more than 21,000 employees.

Key People

Aneel Bhusri

Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chair

Rob Enslin

President and Chief Commercial Officer

Gerrit Kazmaier

President, Product and Technology

Zane Rowe

Chief Financial Officer

Interview process at Workday

(54 to 84 candidate responses on Indeed U.S., depending on the measure)

Interview experience

Favorable, rated 7 out of 10

Interview difficulty

Medium, rated 5 out of 10

Interview process length

About two weeks

Overall experience

PoorExcellent
EasyDifficult

Interview process length

About a day or two8%
About a week47%
About a month26%
More than one month19%

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Workday Interview Questions & Answers

Q: How would you design an object-oriented service for a business workflow?

A: Clarify actors, states and rules first. Define objects around stable responsibilities, then cover interfaces, persistence, concurrency, failure recovery and testing.

Answer by AI
  • Start from workflow rules.
  • Keep object duties clear.
  • Cover failure and testing.

Q: How would you design a scalable enterprise application?

A: Begin with users, traffic, data sensitivity and availability needs. Propose service and data boundaries, then discuss capacity, observability, security and tradeoffs.

Answer by AI
  • Quantify requirements.
  • Explain boundaries.
  • Make tradeoffs explicit.

Q: Tell me about a difficult production issue you resolved.

A: Describe the customer impact, evidence and containment step. Walk through diagnosis, the permanent fix and the monitoring or test that prevents recurrence.

Answer by AI
  • State impact and urgency.
  • Show evidence-led diagnosis.
  • Prevent the same failure.

Q: How do you review code from another engineer?

A: Check correctness, security, maintainability and tests against the stated goal. Separate blocking issues from suggestions and explain the reasoning respectfully.

Answer by AI
  • Review against the goal.
  • Prioritise risk.
  • Give clear, respectful feedback.

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Workday Salaries in the United States (Updated 2026)

Senior Software Development Engineer

Glassdoor estimate

US$248,000 to US$347,000 per year

928 salaries submitted Salaries submitted

Software Development Engineer

Glassdoor estimate

US$184,000 to US$260,000 per year

726 salaries submitted Salaries submitted

Software Engineer

Glassdoor estimate

US$176,000 to US$259,000 per year

400 salaries submitted Salaries submitted

Product Manager

Glassdoor estimate

US$198,000 to US$287,000 per year

208 salaries submitted Salaries submitted

Senior Product Manager

Glassdoor estimate

US$257,000 to US$364,000 per year

137 salaries submitted Salaries submitted

Account Executive

Glassdoor estimate

US$239,000 to US$408,000 per year

237 salaries submitted Salaries submitted

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Use these employee-submitted U.S. estimates as a starting point for role research.

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Benefits

On-demand learning platforms
Career Hub for internal roles and learning
Skills-based development resources
Medical and healthcare benefits
Mental and emotional health support
Fertility, adoption and new-parent support
Retirement benefits
Employee stock purchase plan
Cash bonus and equity programmes for eligible roles
Paid time off
Family leave
Flexible work arrangements based on role

Latest News & Updates

July 23, 2026

Adaptive Planning receives FedRAMP Moderate authorization

Workday Government announced authorization for federal workforce and budget planning use cases.

#Government #Planning

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July 22, 2026

Workday Learning with Sana becomes generally available

The combined learning product adds AI tutoring, course creation and automated learning operations.

#Learning #AI

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July 21, 2026

Workday announces Rising 2026

The company scheduled its annual customer event for October 12 to 15 in Las Vegas.

#Rising #Events

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June 2, 2026

Workday releases new developer tools for AI agents

The company announced tools to help developers build, connect and verify AI agents for HR, finance and IT.

#Developers #AI

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June 2, 2026

Workday launches Agent Passport

Agent Passport is designed to test, verify and continuously monitor enterprise AI agents.

#Security #AI

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Workday FAQ

Workday provides enterprise cloud applications for HR, finance, spend, planning and AI agents.