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SurePayroll

Part of Paychex

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SurePayroll Software Developer reviews

4.3

83% would recommend to a friend

(3 total reviews)

John Cumbee

83% approve of CEO

83% positive business outlook

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3 reviews
5.0
Jan 3, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Great agile teams and management to drive the technical initiatives Great work/life balance Good compensation

Cons

nothing I can think of

5.0
Jan 3, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Smooth interview process - Recruiters and interviewers are very helpful in interview as well as onboarding process, it feels like joining a friendly environment. Leadership with a Vision - Leadership is very proactive about taking steps to make organization a better place in every aspect and offer best solutions to clients and customers to make their work easier. One thing I personally like is that our voices are getting heard and given a considerable thought for every suggestion we offer, which basically allows decisions to be made unanimously considering the pros and cons for each. 3. Friendly environment - Though we wfh due to covid still it doesn't feel like we are separated. Within few days of my joining I felt like I know everyone since long time because everyone was really welcoming and willing to help. Managers, team leads and team members also talk about different stuff other than just technical things or business stuff which helps us to get very comfortable within the team and promotes a healthy environment. Opportunities to Grow - Since my joining I have seen many colleagues in various teams getting promoted to higher roles or switch across departments which brings optimism in terms of growth opportunities and also encourages us to learn how to contribute more and take the ownership of the work for higher roles.

Cons

As if now I don't see any cons in the company, in fact the company is continuously trying to provide all the help and support to each employee so that we can work from home comfortably and deliver results on time.

1.0
Feb 7, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

MSDN, Pluralsight subscription, though the subscription is kind-of useless as you will not get to apply any new technology that you learn.

Cons

The company is run by senior leadership who has little to no regard for technology. For them, its all about getting it done in the shortest possible time so it looks good on their cost charts when they present their reports, no matter what. Leadership, PMO(yes project managers in the age of agile) and executives trying to influence decisions at every turn. They claim to be agile but the only part of agile they follow are the scrum meetings to give you the illusion of agile. Developers work mostly with legacy applications, extremely old technology with most of the code base in aspx and mvc. A significant portion is even in classic asp (yuck) and VB. A lot of the application code is so old that you will spend days figuring out a bug that would taken you a few minutes had it been rewritten. But that's not a priority for management, so half of your job is fixing antique complex code that breaks to keep the SurePayroll boat floating without having any knowledge why it was written that way. Projects are driven by PMO and senior leadership, so any project that is appealing to you, is not appealing to them and will not get prioritized. They don't care about your growth or you learning and building new stuff. Managers will talk about it to keep you happy, but they have little to no pull. There are mainly two groups of developers here. One younger and energetic developers/leads that were recruited under false promises of new technology. Another group, who don't really care about learning or technology and are here to retire. The first group has a high turnover. That is not an environment you want if you care about not become obsolete in the technology world. A lot of times you will find yourself debating people on useless stuff like about why to change to an industry standard when the old process written a couple of decades ago works. All positions are stagnant. There is no growth unless someone above you leaves, and he probably left for the same reason. Pays are low, Pay increments are insignificant every year, less than the rate of depreciation. Another interesting thing I noticed while I was there was that they are not honest with you about what we work in, in interviews for new positions. You will hear about Containers, Cloud, breaking up Monolith in Microservices, Angular, etc. Its how they get you in. You will barely see that here, senior leadership is too technologically inept to ever go there. Its all talk. The only actual new technology was a small Angular project that an outside contracting firm build for us. So, you'll hear management say we did so and so in Angular. We didn't. An outside firm did and we got to barely touch it. Let me summarize, If you are a developer that cares about learning, building on new technology, cloud technologies, about being marketable for future jobs, stay away. This place will kill your innovation and desire to learn. If you are looking for a place to sit, relax and retire (assuming they are still in business) without having to learn anything new, this is the place for you.

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