Great Place to Leave - Cloud Engineer UKG Employee Review

1.0
14 Apr 2022
Recommend
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Pros

For low paid workers, 401k 45% match. 100% paid healthcare premiums. The tiny Marketing team is on point!

Cons

Everything else: No one knows who does what and definitely not why or how (without full blown detective work). Constantly the worst decision making processes I’ve ever seen…if they are processes at all. Every level of the reporting structure uses bad data to tell fictional stories about Objectives, KPIs, accomplishments, etc. Leadership with little vision. Management with poor execution, who can’t develop, keep, nor hire talent. Architecture with brittle designs. Whimsical tech stacks that are just terrible POCs turned into production. Everyone else with a lot of hope but no idea there is no hope in that purgatory. Equal opportunist under-employer. Every individual contributor and some managers there would easily do much better elsewhere.

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5.0
23 Apr 2026
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Pros

Great campus, great managers and intern program supports you well

Cons

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1.0
25 Jun 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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