Paychex reviews

Oh where to begin... I'd first like to start by saying I wish someone warned me or I read into the reviews about this company because my experience here has been nothing but horrible. I was very excited to start because my soon to be manager kept selling me on how great of a job this would be, only to find out that that was far from the case. You train for two months but while you train, you're expected to be closing deals and be outside in the field while also attending training seminars that make up for most of your day. Management is terrible. You are nothing but just another number to them. As soon as your numbers are low, you’re treated in a way that is worthy of going to HR about. Teams and managers are very cliquey; I felt my manager was always talking behind my back (because he badmouthed about others to me). Their Salesforce is extremely out-of-date and they won't hire someone to come in and clean it up (which would make our job a lot easier). Although I was hired on for the Payroll team, I was expected to sell their other services such as 401k and HR. They say it’s unlimited PTO, but that is a scam at this company because you take one day off and your manager shames you for it and is reluctant to approve. I now understand why the turnover rate is so high here. It's a terrible company to work for with terrible people managing it. I would advise anyone to stay far away from this company. I would never recommend Paychex to anyone no matter how in need of a job they are.

My first job as a software engineer, and it was a miserable one. I was a coding bootcamp graduate, so set up well with the foundations but wildly inexperienced. I guess they thought I was a bargain hire, not knowing bootcamp coders are longer-term investment projects. In short, I was set up to fail. -I was thrown in the deep end and only given token efforts at support. -No mentoring of any kind, or even a codified onboarding process beyond the most basic of steps -Complete garbage Confluence wiki that’s next to useless -Was told I needed to speak up and ask more questions, then reprimanded for asking too many questions. -Complete misuse of Agile practices, which had minimal effect on the experienced coders, but for me only served to beat me down further and reinforce a characterization of incompetence. -So many requests for help went unanswered that ChatGPT actually became my best coding resource -My work was routinely condemned for being slow and error prone—which it was, as I had 32 weeks of programming experience before starting—but was never given any kind of actionable feedback to improve or quantifiable metrics to reach -Company is east coast, I’m west coast; I was promised that eventually morning meetings would be moved later to accommodate this difference which exacerbated mental health issues; I had to actually file formal ADA requests to get anything done, and even then attempts were made to push things back. And this is what I can pull off the top of my head without consulting notes I took during my time there.