Paychex reviews

3.1

49% would recommend to a friend

(3,858 total reviews)
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49% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

Paychex has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 3,858 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Paychex employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
Jul 9, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

The best reason to work for Paychex is because it is a stable large company. It is currently spending loads of money on technology and will have a large demand for technical individuals for years to come. The company helps pay for tuition and offers 401k, medical, dental and pharmacy benifits.

Cons

The downside to working at paychex is the compensation. There are many opertunities for advancement in IT from support to third level and up. But moving up from within the company does not pay the same as being hired from out side. Advancements to other departments are considered lateral and there is no increase in compensation. This is dictated from upper management. Annual raises don't keep up with inflation. They are said to be based on performance but at best you get a 3% increase. Though 6% is theoretically possible you have to walk on water and tell the future to get that increase.

3.0
Jun 24, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

When you hold Paychex up against other employers in the Rochester, NY area, they are one of the best. However, that's like saying "of embarrassing family members, this one's the least embarrassing." We do get good benefits, and typically your immediate supervisor will take care of you in terms of work/life balance or assisting you professionally (for example, blowing up roadblocks to projects). And, now that we've managed to completely gum up the works in terms of process and procedure, there's almost a lack of work to do because you just can't get anything done. Between very poorly understood ITIL practices and an almost comical mis-implementation of a Sarbanes-Oxley change management system, it can take two to three weeks just to get a problem fixed. In terms of your coworkers, I work in the IT department. Honestly, I can say that the people I work with in Paychex' IT are generally some of the most competent and talented people I've ever worked with. Sure, some are useless rocks, but the overwhelming majority know their stuff and implement it as well as they can given the constraints they have to deal with. Almost forgot...in regards to benefits, you have to work for them now. Now, you have to jump through hoops to prove you live a "healthy lifestyle" or you'll pay an undisclosed higher premium with higher deductibles for your insurance. There's a lawsuit against another company in California for doing exactly the same thing, and we're in discussions with a law firm to bring one against Paychex for the same reasons the other company is being sued.

Cons

Senior management...not so much. The majority of the senior managers started with Ol' Tom and still live in Paychex' heyday where money was infinite (so they thought) and there was no competition. They've turned Paychex into a lumbering behemoth that is incapable of keeping up with the times. Sales is given free reign to decide which products will be offered and when. So, even if a product can't be completed by their deadline, it goes out, regardless of its completeness. "Oh, we'll fix it later once we've sold enough to our customers." Our products have been very poorly reviewed and Paychex response, literally, was "We just won't let them review it anymore". We're losing customers regularly and are finding it almost impossible to hire on new, qualified talent. Because Paychex is completely inflexible when it comes to pay and vacation time, even unemployed applicants are choosing to "leave it" when asked to "take it".

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