Where engineering careers go to die. - Anonymous employee UKG Employee Review

1.0
Oct 4, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Pay is marginally adequate. The new building is nice. Free coffee. Here are more words to meet the minimum and there is nothing else good about this place.

Cons

Kronos gets listed as a "great place to work" which I think is largely true for the rest of the company. They know how to operate and keep the company profitable despite the incompetence and repeated mistakes from engineering. There is no such thing as "operational improvement" in engineering. There is no discipline, no accountability and barely any process. They are using a proto-agile methodology (implemented in the mid 2000s and relatively untouched). To give you a sense, we never talk about velocity, only capacity. "Retrospectives" are just meetings where people talk. No actions are documented, and there certainly isn't any follow up. I've been here for a few years and nothing has gotten better. I have personally tried multiple initiatives to get things to improve, but nobody cares. Product quality continues to be embarrassing. Only reason I'm still here is for my bonus in December. Then I'm done. This place is hopeless.

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Pros

There was once a great company named Ultimate Software, it was destroyed by a hostile takeover from H&F, a private equity firm, and a merger with Kronos to become UKG. There are very few Pros since that time.

Cons

When this company was Ultimate Software, prior to the takeover from H&F and the merger with Kronos, it was a world class company with top shelf people. The company Motto was "People First" and they truly lived by that motto, never a layoff, great working environment and stealer benefits. Since the takeover and subsequent merger with Kronos, to become UKG this company has taken a path of "Money First", which is understandable given the greedy nature of Private Equity Firms like H&F. They have systematically closed most of the offices across the US and have been expanding their footprint in Noida India, for obvious reasons. The leadership that has been put in place by H&F is clearly focused on IPO. And we all know what that means, clean up the books and make the company look as good on paper as possible. Can you say "Lipstick on a Pig". This was once a great company when it was run by Scott and Viv but now it has gone the way of the Private Equity management and is heading for a great fall.

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