Executive Leadership does not care about employees - Senior Software Engineer UKG Employee Review

2.0
2 Mar 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Unlimited PTO, good paid healthcare benefits and 401K match currently.

Cons

At this point, it’s a joke that the company’s slogan is still “Our purpose is people”. People are the absolute last priority given the recent messaging and communication from the company leadership. UKG came about as a result of a merger between Ultimate Software and Kronos. These two companies seemed to have decent cultures before the merger and for some time after with Aron Ain at the helm, who led us admirably through an uneasy transition. Recently however with Chris Todd as the new CEO, and Hugo Sarrazin as the CTO, the executive leadership has become cold, cruel and ignorant. We have been raking in record profits since most teams switched to hybrid remote but yet there is a new broad mandate that all of EPIC's employees return to the office 3 days a week. My team had been virtual since prior to the pandemic, with most people scattered all over the globe, but that does not matter. EPIC now wants us to drive in to the office to attend the exact same virtual meetings that we would when working from home, with no care for the increased fuel cost for commuting or the time lost in transit. Any deviation or questioning of this policy is met with open hostility. Our salaries as engineers are already on the lower end of the industry scale, and we’re entering a recession. This is incredibly tone deaf at best, and willfully machiavellian at worst. There is no discourse, and they do not appear to listen to employee concerns, no matter how many people speak up.

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Pros

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

Cons

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1.0
25 June 2026
Recommend
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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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