Enjoyed the Work - Senior Software Engineer UKG Employee Review

4.0
Oct 10, 2018
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Pros

I worked at Kronos for 16 years so I must have liked it. For most of my career at Kronos I was a developer in Continuing Engineering. This means it was my job to fix bugs. I enjoyed it as there every new issue was a new challenge. I was on a remote team. The people I worked with, both locally and at HQ, were all smart and dedicated and a pleasure to work with. Maybe it was a benefit of being remote, but my team generally worked 40 hours weeks. Benefits and salary seemed fine but I never really went out and compared. My immediate managers understood our work in the sense that some issues are easy and some issues are really hard and take longer to solve.

Cons

Remote teams were treated like red headed step children by upper management, not invited to Engineering wide meetings and such. Of course, from what I understand, they have now dissolved many of the remote teams. Upper management had a tendency to micromanage if a significant customer was upset. I personally don't feel having a VP calling a developer and wanting to know if it is "done" is in any way expediting a fix. There were never enough resources: VMs, database space (some customers had very, very large data) and such.

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5.0
Jul 24, 2026
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Pros

fantastic leadership, work, flexibility and benefits

Cons

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1.0
Jun 25, 2026
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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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