Paycor reviews

3.4

57% would recommend to a friend

(1,411 total reviews)
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Raul Villar

58% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

Paycor has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 1,411 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Paycor employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.6 stars).

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5.0
Aug 15, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Can't say enough here: Ownership culture as associates are given stock and participate in the upside of the company. Being a company focused on service since founding, it's no surprise that this extends to the communities we serve through our Community Partners initiatives which give associates a wide audience to introduce serving opportunities. Brand new state of the art HQ building with open floor plan and floor to ceiling glass, workout facility, and onsite cafeteria are only a few amenities that make work more fulfilling. Last but not least, the founder and CEO Bob Coughlin truly cares about the associates success and takes it personally: he knows that it takes engaged employees for the company to achieve its potential and is committed to doing whatever he can for that to happen.

Cons

With so much growth comes ever-present change that requires adaptation, which isn't an easy thing to handle. While this is inconvenient I see it as a positive towards my positive professional growth and engagement. If you don't do well in a changing environment this is not the company for you.

5.0
Aug 15, 2014

Awesome Leadership, Growth Company

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The Pro's of working for Paycor: **Cutting edge Technology **Award winning Service **A Founder that is involved and Cares about his employees **Leadership that cares about the company and employees **Well respected in the market place *We are feared by our competitors :) **Great work life family balance

Cons

Cons about working at Paycor: **I Love change and growth. If you do not like change and growth do not come to Paycor.

1.0
Jul 24, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Some of the people here are genuinely nice people and great to work with. Unfortunately, those people are few and far between. The new building in Cincinnati is also very nice.

Cons

This place is filled with Microsoft shills. Microsoft technology is the only valid solution to all technical problems. Want to use a good JS framework like Angular or Ember? Want to use common front-end tools like grunt, gulp, bower, browserify or something similar? You will not even make it out of your cube before you find out that won't be happening. Here are a few brief cons about development life at Paycor: * Micro-management to the extreme. Program managers, application development managers, and high level managers consistently attend SCRUMS and planning sessions and dictate what work and the quantity of work that the team should do. * Microsoft is the only way. There are countless senior level developers who passionately believe that HTML / JS / CSS are the devil and that we never should have veered from using Silverlight. * Accountability is non-existent and finger pointing runs rampant. The finger pointing is not even constructive, as it usually manifests itself in the form of a passive aggressive email sent to the entire team and managers. * Benefits are poor at best. Health care premiums are not cheap and deductibles are very high. It makes me wonder if Paycor contributes anything at all to the premium. Dental and vision are a joke. Bonus structure is also a joke, unless you come in as a very senior level developer. Forget about ever going to another conference / workshop unless you manage to find one in or around Cincinnati. * Severe lack of talent. Most developers have either been there for 6+ years or less than 2 years. Those that have been there for a long time generally have Paycor as their only professional job experience. Those that have been there for less time generally move on after a couple years. This causes a talent pool that consists of people whose only experience is Paycor, and relatively inexperienced developers with only a year or two of experience. There is a reason that there are no seasoned developers coming to Paycor and spending a significant amount of time here (see above reasons).

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Paycor Response
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We take every current and former employee’s feedback seriously. Such input helps us to improve and to become a highly engaged, innovative and effective technology company that takes pride in delivering the best outcomes for our clients and associates. We started driving a significant transformation of our technology organization this year. While we are not abandoning the Microsoft technology stack, we focus on the best-of-breed solutions that fit our technology evolution strategy. For example, we have added usage of open source components in our software development lifecycle. We recently standardized on Selenium for test automation. Our Agile transformation commenced with full training of all of our technology staff earlier this year. As our teams went through the process of forming, storming, norming and performing stages, there were some conflicts within a small set of the teams. We had emphasized our company value of taking care of our peers and team members and building a trusting environment for innovation. We provided every engineer formal Agile training and invested in a full-time external Agile Coach and two internal coaches. Our Agile coaches and champions are continuously helping our teams to get better in all fronts of product development and delivery. We have seen significant improvements in our team dynamics and collaboration outcomes. As we heavily develop our existing team members, we also infuse star talents with strong SaaS/Cloud, Agile and Leadership capabilities, to accelerate our transformation and power our rapid business growth. During the last 4 months, we hired strong engineers and leaders at almost all levels. Many of them came to us from top technology companies that are well-known in the world. We have built a strong pipeline of prospect hires, including engineers with top-notch front-end and back-end development experience. We are steadily strengthening our total compensation package for our new and existing employees to remain competitive in the market.
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