It was a great place to work - Anonymous employee UKG Employee Review

1.0
Dec 20, 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Benefit are still very good, but see it dwindle yearly. The people you work with are friendly and generally happy to help Compare to tech industry trend, we haven't have a lay off yet as of Dec 2022

Cons

It is a very mix feeling seeing the company evolve over many years. When Kronos and Ultimate initially merged, being a legacy Kronos employee, we saw new benefits that was carried over from Ultimate side. We rejoice and drank the Kool-aid from the marketing department. But as immediate as the benefit is given, we see benefit cut. From the changes such as having accrual vacation, where if you exit the company, they have to pay for what you accrual. This was switch to unlimited vacation with manager approval only. As statistics has shown, this always benefit the company and not employees. We then move onto recent changes such as all our reimbursement benefits rolling into a single package. The single reimbursement package does have a high limit when you look at it, but when you look into the details and its limitations, you'll quickly find out, what you could have filed as reimbursement in previous years, suddenly is cut in 1/2 To further increase the profit margin of the few privileged. The end of year bonus compensation is adjusted. Previous year, many people who worked hard, gets a rating of 4 out of 5, the message to all managers are, too many people are being rated too well, and 3 is the new celebrated rating. So bonus was essentially cut drastically for many people during the Holiday times. Finally we come to transparency from upper and middle management to individually contributors. Prior to the new CEO transition, under Aron. Most of the company's goals and expectation was very transparent and employee centric. But since the transition, and many upper management positions had left and replace by new. The goal of the company seems very much a façade.

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Pros

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

Cons

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1.0
Jun 25, 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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