Masterclass in how sloppy mergers break a company culture - Anonymous employee UKG Employee Review

2.0
20 Jun 2022
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The benefits are pretty good, but the salaries aren't that competitive. Used to be "the people" or "the culture," but when everyone has left.... does that even count anymore?

Cons

We basically have stopped delivering products for our customers, and then even the basics become a fire drill. Projects take forever, change constantly, and leadership isn't stable. So many really important leaders within teams and at the top have left or been bounced into meaningless roles. There's almost no fighting spirit anymore, and UKG is falling behind... slowly but surely. The culture that made the company special has been replaced with a tactical, operational focus and really aggressive top-down mandates about how teams should run, what the weekly cadences are, our exact process.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
25 Jun 2026
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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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