Best Company!!! - Anonymous employee UKG Employee Review

5.0
Jan 16, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Excellent work culture--there are always activities, free lunch, massages, games, and so much going on on a regular basis to break the monotony of the day-to-day work flow. This company focuses so much on finding great talent that you are surrounded by awesome people that really begin to feel like family. The culture comes down from the top and trickles down. Our CEO Scott Scherr is such a grounded and awesome person who truly cares about his employees. He is not an invisible CEO that none of the employees actually know. He makes sure he meets all new employees when they are hired at the new hire event, which is awesome. He shows he is a different type of CEO just by the way he runs the company with the "employee first" mindset, but the best part about it, it actually IS employee first. Excellent leadership-- I have been under two seperate team leads and they do everything in there power to see you succeed. I love my leads and my managers, they are all about helping you succeed. Excellent benefits--what is better than benefits (and good benefits at that) being paid 100% by your employer. Not to mention all of the other perks and discounts you receive. Great pay--we are well compensated for the jobs that we do.

Cons

I haven't found many challenges worth mentioning. I think the only challenge I found was the training. Coming in as a new person, the training was a little overwhelming and I feel it could have been a little more organized.

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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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