Calm as lake in old projects, absolute chaos in others - Software Developer UKG Employee Review

1.0
23 Aug 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- If you are a manager, you basically do not work! only obey commands of the upper managements and pass them to the poor employees and get paid well and have as much children as possible to go to paternity/maternity leave. - basically very flexible for WFH and sick and vacation days. - free coffee. croissants on Fridays which portions goes smaller and smaller every week. - No one wants to work for kronos, so just apply and show yourself ready to accept to work in a chaotic environment, and you'll get the offer!

Cons

- Workforce Central employees really enjoy their time, but again nothing new is learned by working for kronos. - Workforce Dimensions is the absolute Chaos at its best. There is no technology, no methodology, no culture and no aspects could be named which is done right. - For each new micro feature, many more complicated bugs are introduced, and it is funny that those bugfixes wont go through regression before they merge, so each bugfix again introduces many more new bugs. leading to having the most unstable and chaotic software solution as possible. - The softwares in all aspects of the company are not done right from the beginning. - Forget about team spirit and collaboration, you do not find it here. - Forget about team members who are willing to share their knowledge, they either do not know or do not want to share their knowledge. - Prepare to work on the weekends very often with no fault of your own. - Forget about creativity and innovation, none is defined and all of the time of the developers and QAs is wasted on bringing the chaotic software solution back together. - Frameworks are done by consultants quickly and cheaply so expect unmaintainable and chaotic framework. - There is no employee freedom at all, either obey to work on what is defined and using the technology and tools they define or leave the company. - Toxic and negative culture. meaning you are not safe from being constantly judged and reported to the upper management based on those judgements. - When an issue arises in the team, team members pass it to others. - Deadlines are not fair and are imaginary. meaning they create alot of negative stress and health issues for the employees who work. - Most of the new work is assigned to a very few employees, and the rest of employees are doing pointless maintenance of a badly designed system. if they put those who do maintenance on the new work, they can not handle it or they refuse. obvious signs of a untraceable bloating software.

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5.0
29 June 2026
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Pros

Great benefits Great work-life balance Unlimited PTO 401k Match

Cons

There have been a lot of frequent changes to adapt to.

1.0
25 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

There was once a great company named Ultimate Software, it was destroyed by a hostile takeover from H&F, a private equity firm, and a merger with Kronos to become UKG. There are very few Pros since that time.

Cons

When this company was Ultimate Software, prior to the takeover from H&F and the merger with Kronos, it was a world class company with top shelf people. The company Motto was "People First" and they truly lived by that motto, never a layoff, great working environment and stealer benefits. Since the takeover and subsequent merger with Kronos, to become UKG this company has taken a path of "Money First", which is understandable given the greedy nature of Private Equity Firms like H&F. They have systematically closed most of the offices across the US and have been expanding their footprint in Noida India, for obvious reasons. The leadership that has been put in place by H&F is clearly focused on IPO. And we all know what that means, clean up the books and make the company look as good on paper as possible. Can you say "Lipstick on a Pig". This was once a great company when it was run by Scott and Viv but now it has gone the way of the Private Equity management and is heading for a great fall.

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