Not a company who truly values its people - Executive ADP Employee Review

2.0
17 Jan 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Great diversity, stable company, known in the industry, flex time

Cons

Company doesnt value its people. You are just a headcount to achieve their ever-increasing targets. Any onboarding training or familiarization with the company is through a video link, making everyone who has worked for the company for less than 10 years stumble around blindly navigating the business and operational processes. Other than tuition reimbursement program and skills training, there is really limited incentive to keeping their employees happy. Holiday lunches are lunchroom events, and nothing much is being done outside of that to keep engagements up. Compensation is also pathetic, with a double workload assigned to each one because of a challenging headcount. People leave because of high expectations to deliver on a broken system, and especially as they can get a lower stress job with a higher salary elsewhere. Technology product they sell are troublesome with a lot of kinks, which they try to patch over with extra service from their overworked frontline reps. Come here to get the experience from a known company, but dont stay long. You will never want to, anyway.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

- Established company with a long history and relatively stable business operations. - Provides a sense of job stability compared to many organizations navigating rapid changes in the current AI-driven market. - Lower risk of frequent restructuring or large-scale layoffs than many high-growth technology companies. - Opportunity to work with experienced employees who have deep institutional and domain knowledge. - Predictable work environment that may appeal to individuals seeking long-term stability over rapid change. - Strong choice for professionals who value job security and a steady career path in an uncertain economic climate.

Cons

- Documentation is limited or rusted, and many operational processes lack clear runbooks or standardized procedures, making onboarding and troubleshooting more difficult than necessary. - If you're coming from a modern, fast-paced engineering environment, the organization may feel behind current industry practices and tooling. - Internal politics can sometimes outweigh technical merit or execution. - There are teams with very long-tenured employees where change and innovation can be difficult to drive. - Decision-making often involves multiple layers of approval, resulting in significant bureaucracy and slower execution. - Processes can move slowly, and collaboration is not always transparent across teams, leading to inefficiencies and occasional confusion around ownership. - In some areas, roles, responsibilities, and operational processes are not clearly defined, creating unnecessary chaos and inconsistent ways of working. - Engineering standards and best practices vary considerably between teams, making cross-team collaboration challenging. - Organizational change tends to happen slowly, which can be frustrating for employees who are focused on modernization, automation, and continuous improvement.

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