Poor Executive Leadership/Not what it used to be. - Lead Software Engineer UKG Employee Review

1.0
Mar 16, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Unlimited PTO (for now), good coworkers

Cons

Executive leadership is incompetent and lies to employees. Executive leadership on the tech side spends more time talking about org structure than technology. Executive leadership on the business side constantly says everything is going great, but then they layoff hundreds of valuable employees multiple times arbitrarily and not based on any performance metrics. Executive leadership on the people side lies to employee's faces. They pretend to not know what "auto-resignation" means during company wide meeting, then subsequently send out email saying people will be auto-resigned if they do not comply with return to office policies. Return to office policy includes having fully remote employees (people that haven't been in an office for 10 years) to travel 2 hours one-way to the office. No exceptions given, 30 day notice. This is considered being "reasonable" by executives (who are full remote).

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1.0
Jun 25, 2026
Recommend
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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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