Paycom Software Developer reviews

2.6

23% would recommend to a friend

(324 total reviews)
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Chad Richison

16% approve of CEO

14% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated Paycom with 2.6 out of 5 stars, based on 324 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have an average working experience there. Paycom is rated 29% below average by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Dec 22, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Even if you don't do your job at all, you're only as likely to get fired as anyone else.

Cons

After 8 years, it is obvious that management does not care about employees at all. They assured us that remote work 4 days a week was a permanent change, encouraging us to invest in our home office. December 13th, 2022, they made a sudden and unexpected announcement that Paycom was dropping all remote work for most departments by January 16th. This review is being written on December 22, and no work is getting done as most people are trying to find other jobs, child care, or alternative living conditions. Until this announcement, management constantly stated that productivity had increased while working from home. The complete and sudden flip-flop of stating that things have been "slipping" is customary of Paycom management. They make random decisions based off of random feelings without any regard to the future of the company or its employees. Questions about the end of remote work kept coming on the company forum until management disabled comments. The treatment of QA as far inferior to software developers is another unfortunate and constant issue with Paycom. They are paid less and expected to provide customer support of existing code in addition to testing new code, and are blamed for developers' failure to write working code. People have been fired without warning as scapegoats when the poorly written software has failed on the poorly managed servers. Management will lie and tell you that you will have advance notice of perceived job performance issues before termination. Management has lied to existing employees who noticed the lowest salary for new hires was more than they were making. Management stated that the listed lowest salary (which was provided by management) was a misprint, and refused to pay the new minimum to existing employees. Every few weeks, some random reorganization makes things harder for everyone in an attempt to hide the ever-growing stockpile of technical debt. Everything is labeled "highest priority." I once asked which of two items had a higher priority, and my manager, like a character from a comic, said, "Both." One of management's favorite events is called "Code-a-thon," where a bunch of suckers are tricked into working all weekend to produce even worse code than usual in exchange for trinkets and mediocre catering. The bugs and issues caused by so many developers all cramming code in never get resolved, just hastily patched like all the other critical failures in the system. The turnover rate is impressive. I had 5 different direct supervisors in my first 4 years. The fire alarm tripped unexpectedly one day, and as we gathered in the parking lot, someone on a megaphone demanded that we not post what was happening on social media. Later, an email was sent that contained the lie to tell any clients that asked about the period of unavailability. While following the tornado emergency procedure, there wasn't enough room in the designated basement, so many of us ended up in external staircases looking out of windows.

1.0
Dec 17, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

---If it's your first job out of college, it's great. You can get some experience to put on your resume to look for a better job. ---Benefits are actually solid, $1 for employee insurance with options to upgrade for reasonable prices. --- 0$ copay for therapy which is esspecially great for all the mental strain they'll put you under so make sure to take advantage of the free therapy! You'll need it! ---PTO is reasonable, not incredible but honestly better than some of friends who also work in the industry. ---Direct managers and coworkers are great and care about you, can't say the same about upper management but that's for the cons sections ---Lunches everyday are catered by some of paycoms clients and only cost $4 for a decent meals

Cons

---This is a billion dollar company run by a billionaire CEO, they literally do not care about you or your life. They want to suck your soul out for the sake of production. ---They keep coming up with increasingly large projects with narrow deadlines and then put the blame for missed deadlines on WFH and not on the fact their deadlines were unreasonable. ---they told their employees work from home was permanent and then jerked the rug out from everyone and are very shady about answering questions as to why that decision was made when we have been told for 3 years that production has actually been up with WFH --- work life balance is VERY poor and unvalued by higher ups. ---the department wide meetings usually sound like a cult meeting. It's like 10 minutes of the CIO talking about what a wonderful place paycom is and how you should all be happy to work there. I have worked for other companies who aren't nearly so cultish sounding about companies who care more about their employees. Let the numbers tell us how well we're doing and stop trying to get everyone to drink the kool-aid. --The pay is honestly bottom tier for the industry. --when wfh was a thing (technically its still a thing for development but that will likely go away when they finish another building in OKC) they expected their employees to buy/use their own computers to remote in, when I told friends in the industry that they were all shocked that 1) machines weren't provided and 2) no compensation was provided for added expenses or those who had to purchase computers, monitors, whatever.

1.0
Dec 16, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

The direct people I have worked with over my 5+ years at the company have always been great and the $1 health insurance was nice.

Cons

401k match has always been a bit lacking Lack of training and direction of responsibilities and workload Upper management strikes fear into their managers/supervisors and makes quick decisions that lead to a more disruptive workplace environment within the teams.

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