It's all about the particular office and your direct manager - Sales Consultant Paychex Employee Review

4.0
24 Mar 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Paychex is a great company, a strong company with great products and services. It has a great reputation and happy customers. Unfortunately it all comes down to the particular office you work in and your direct manager. If you have the opportunity to work in a location/office where reps enjoy partnering and referring and you have a decent manager you will be very happy. If your office is dead energy with a bad manager than you will be unhappy. You might notice that a great or decent manager makes for a great office to work in.

Cons

Unfortunately it all comes down to the particular office you work in and your direct manager. If you have a bad manager, you are stuck. Upper management and HR will accept your complaints, but nothing will be done. After I was there for a while a bad manager came in and his entire team quit within a year. He had 100% turnover in one year. All of the reps complained to upper management but nothing changed. You will see mixed reviews - Paychex Great and Paychex Horrible - it's all about the District Manager and Zone Manager . Please note that there are different divisions: CORE payroll, MMS Payroll, HR Premier and 401K/FSA - each divisions has it's own District Manager that you report to. Best advice is to listen to your instincts when you interview. See if it feels like a bad office or manager - or if it's good. Keep in mind management staff can change. A previously bad office can become a great office when there is different management.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

Nothing is good about working here.

Cons

Nobody is ever held accountable. Pay is awful. Benefits were all moved out of state, so all providers in the area are all out of network. Jobs are being moved to India. The list goes on. Sales is the absolute favorite department in the entire company. Nothing sales can do is ever wrong, even when they give false information to clients and then the support team has to deal with the fallback. Don't get me started on Payroll.... the entire department has gone to the wind. I honestly don't know how this company ever did good with payroll services. The #1 complaint i got from every single client I interacted with was they could never get ahold of their Payroll Specialist. The company's response to this was to start making other departments learn payroll duties. This year they moved insurance benefits to a plan out of Arkansas, which made every provider I was already seeing become out of network. I had my first major medical scare of my adulthood and ended up paying a few grand out of pocket because U of R was out of network. Promotions are non existent. They make you apply and interview for any role you want to move into. There is nothing good about working here, and i would advise anyone to stay away from them.

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