Paycom reviews

Chad Richison, the CEO of Paycom at the time of writing this review (hopefully not by the time you read this) is a tyrannical dictator that fires people on a whim and makes decisions based on emotions rather than logical consideration. The most glaring offense is his surprise announcement in December 2022 that everyone must return to the office and stop working remotely. Most departments only had a few weeks to comply, but some technical roles such as software development were given half a year. When we arrived at the office, we found disorganization and chaos. That was a year ago, and even now no one gets any work done in the cube farm due to the distractions and general disappointment in Paycom. Productivity plummeted after forcing people back into the office, but Paycom leadership is incapable of admitting that they have ever made any mistakes, so they continue to blame and fire QA testers and product managers. There has been a recent announcement that leadership will be "cracking down on badge scans," although no one is quite sure what this will mean other than leadership wants people sitting at their desk in the office building because leadership is incapable of realizing that employees sitting at their desk are not necessarily working. There is currently a class action lawsuit against Paycom for cannibalization of earnings. The primary codebase is a monolithic pile of technical debt that causes any new developments to be riddled with bugs and unexpected behavior. The most rewarded programming style is to throw out as much code as possible and patch bugs later. This style is particularly encouraged at "code-a-thon," an annual voluntary weekend of working for trinkets and breadcrumbs. In the last several months, every software development team got shuffled around so no one is familiar with the parts of code they are now responsible for. We also have no time to figure it out as whoever got what we were once familiar with is constantly asking us how that piece works. The turnover rate is extremely high, and 99% of new hires are fresh college graduates. If you have worked a software development job before, please spare yourself this misery.

Upper management obviously does not care about you and holds no value for your opinion as a worker. As many other reviews have stated, there has been a recent and disastrous push to return fulltime to office, despite MULTIPLE assurances from leadership that remote work was a permanent aspect of our jobs. We received nothing in return for returning to office and have heard no logical justification for doing so; management has shown us no statistics or other quantifiable data that our work was anything less than exemplary during remote work. Furthermore, all questioning on this has been thoroughly repressed. All inquiries for said statistics have been met with deflection and silence. Management even has the audacity to reply to Glassdoor reviews and claim that this push to return to office was always clearly communicated to us. That is a lie. I see no reason to continue working for a company which would so brazenly lie to its employees like Paycom has.