Was amazing.... - Senior Software Engineer UKG Employee Review

1.0
23 Mar 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Military like operation. As an asset, your value is based strictly on your impact to the bottom line, work late and weekends and you may get a promotion, but its doubtful, because they reworked the way performance reviews are done so you need to directly work with customers, which is tough for most engineers.

Cons

Under Aron Ain the company was amazing, he was an amazing leader/CEO. Aron instilled a sense of community and compassion. When Aron left Chris Todd took the helm and with him Hugo Sarrazin began to make changes based strictly on revenue and profit. If you like the way Elon Musk runs Twitter, this is your company. HR reaches out to recently promoted people and asks them to leave a favorable review on Glassdoor, that should tell you everything you need to make a decision about this company.

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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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