They hypocrisy is strong in this place - Manager Paylocity Employee Review

2.0
Jul 4, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Ability to work remote. - Great place to start your career - Ability to make a change for customers. You know that you are working on something important. - There are a lot of people that really care. Just not many in Sr. Leadership - RSU are good and make it difficult to walk away from

Cons

- Paylocity doesn't care what your background strengths are. They will place you in a position based on their need vs. your skillset. I have seen people be let go at Paylocity by being place on a team that didn't align with their skillset. Example a Front-end dev being put on team that only does back-end services. - Paylocity preaches being a fair company, diversity, equal, and no retaliation and it just is not that. All the things they say they don't do. They do a lot. This would not be as bad if the company didn't pat itself on the back every time they start to do a little bit of something. Example requiring managers to watch video about equal hiring practices around new jobs, but then when a new job comes not allowing people to apply for those jobs and also already picking the person who is going to get the job before an interview even happens. - Empowering experienced people to own their work, make decisions, and stop micro managing. Product & Tech turnover has increased and the company doesn't seem to care. We have more associate product owners then experienced product owners. People are not empowered by leadership and experienced people that know what they are doing are not staying. Product owners are taking pay cuts to leave. This is starting to show up in our products as we don't have experience talent to build them and have to rely on a less experience work force. - Many in Sr. Leadership have taken a King and Queen approach to management. They drive down task vs. asking for the outcome they want and allowing the people closes to the problem to find solutions. Then when something doesn't go right they punish the people who did the work even though the leadership were the ones that product a poor plan.

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Paylocity Response
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We appreciate your feedback. As a rapidly growing company, new opportunities constantly arise as well as the need for added support in areas of the business. Empowering our employees is important to us. We strongly support employees’ decisions to seek out opportunities within the organization based on their interests and expertise. We recently revamped our leadership training, new hire training, and implemented a more robust DEI training for all employees as we have a strong commitment to fostering an inclusive environment where all can grow and thrive. We encourage you to provide your feedback to your HR Business Partner as we appreciate your thoughts and are passionate about making Paylocity a great place to work for all.

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