Drastic decline - Individual Contributor UKG Employee Review

1.0
29 June 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Benefits, some great people still there, financially stable company

Cons

I see lots of reviews from legacy Ultimate folks saying Kronos reaped the benefits of the merger. Total misperception. Legacy employees from both sides feel their once-great culture had been lost. Several new upper level leaders hired within the last 9 months are destroying our culture in EPIC. Condescending, arrogant, view people as cogs in a machine. Doing a terrible job supporting people through change at a time when retaining talent is more crucial than ever. I feel like I work for a different company under these leaders. I've never been treated with so much disrespect or been made to feel so insignificant in my career. We are taking a giant step backwards and may never recover. All our marketing about how much we value people is hypocrisy. Trust in upper management is irrevocably broken.

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5.0
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Pros

Great campus, great managers and intern program supports you well

Cons

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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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