Wonderful work place and culture of democratic & high trust Product SW Company - Principal Software Engineer UKG Employee Review

5.0
Jan 31, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Amazing workplace culture, flexible work environment, challenging/stimulating work, The culture at "Kronos India" is pretty solid. The culture is not managed by one person or set of person. It is more democratic and participating workplace. Of late we can see industries best people of professional reputes are preferring and staying with "Kronos India". Everything is cool and pretty low stress. I genuinely like going to work here. I can occasionally work from home when needed. Most of the managers in my group have been great and give a lot of autonomy to developers. Interaction outside my domain with HR, Operations, Finance is excellent. New HR programs like parental leave , Education support ,Smart office culture ,Transport support ,Flexi work ,Term insurance ,Industry best leave benefits are certainly plus++ in the industry.

Cons

None that I have experienced

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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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