The Kool-aid has gone stale - Senior Integration Engineer UKG Employee Review

2.0
29 Apr 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- For every $1 you put in on your 401k, UKG will put in $0.45, up to the IRS limit. So I put in $20,000 last year and UKG put $9000 into my 401k. - Health, dental, and vision are all paid by UKG, but rumor has it that the company will change that approach and have the employees pay part of the bill. - My team members are all smart, hard-working, and cool people. I consider them friends.

Cons

- Pay is on the low end compared to the industry standards, and we are severely under-staffed and stressed all the time. In a span of 1 year, I am now reporting to my 4th manager. All three previous managers got fired on separate occasions, and I found out of each firing or layoff when I saw the "Deactivated Account" message associated to each manager profile on Slack. - Senior management(PW, HS, JM, and CT) has an aloof attitude and care only about raising the CSAT score. Out of touch and delusional. Are they even looking at the employee survey results?

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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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