Terrible Experience - Cult-like - Sales Executive Paycom Employee Review

1.0
27 Jun 2018
Recommend
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Pros

High base salary for sales, big opportunity to make a lot of money. (if it's worth sacrificing work-life balance and your sanity.) Good job for someone who can handle a lot of stress (with a lack of appreciation) and is just money focused.

Cons

Paycom has a very cult-like feel. I personally felt unbearable stress. Our manager treated everyone terribly (probably because the manager was also under unbearable stress) and the resources you are given to make it through are extremely limited. Everyone is stretched way too thin. I used to be required to be at the office starting the day at 7:30 - better be there 5 minutes before 7:30 or get reamed out - and would stay until 7:30pm minimum, most days later, except Fridays. Once home at night, I was expected to do additional research on my accounts, practice role-plays and record myself, update my Paycom system, and prepare my drops/mailers for the following day. I would also regularly get calls from my manager past 8pm. On Sunday, you're expected to 'prepare your week' which takes hours. Even though my coworkers and I couldn't believe what we were putting up with, we were all absolutely terrified to say anything about it. Even now, I am afraid to write this review, but it needs to be said. I tried calling HR anonymously, and they refused to give any advice without knowing my full name - felt like they were trying to rat me out so I gave up on that idea. It's absurd to read all of the "Great place to work!" exclamation point reviews. From what I've gathered, many reviews are written while people are in their training class and haven't experienced the work yet. You'll read other reviews on the true cult-like nature of Paycom if you dig through the "Great!!!" ones. Yes, you can make a ton of money, so if that's what you're going for - definitely consider it. But, this job and this management can really break you down. I did well while I was at Paycom and still dreaded/feared every day. I couldn't wait to get out of there. It feels great to have left it in the past, and yes, you can make as much money elsewhere.

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Paycom Response
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While we always understand that the high demands our sales positions entail will not be a good fit for everyone, we would like to learn more of your experience. Hopefully now that you are a former employee, you feel comfortable contacting HR with more details. Please email Chanse Moucka at chanse.moucka@paycomonline.com so we may look into the matter further. We are proud of our reviews and we feel many of our employees are more than happy to leave positive reviews of their own volition to share their great experience at Paycom. We wish you the best.

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Pros

The People Make Paycom - I really enjoy working with everyone I have had the change to work with. As someone that moved to Oklahoma from out of state, my co-workers were welcoming, and I have several current and previous co-workers that I am friends with outside the office. In addition, the clients that I work with LOVE Paycom. It is easy to come to work when you are working with clients that genuinely want your help and enjoy working with you.

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2.0
17 Jun 2026
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Pros

- Base salary - PTO - Awesome colleagues - $1 Medical PPO offering

Cons

- Upper leadership seem to not value the operations department as much as they do with sales. They are not consistent as well, which causes them to change the entire department's job description, expectations, & commission structure every few months. Change is good but huge change every 3-4 months is so exhausting. - They overload you with too many clients to handle while increasing the number of internal calls. When asking for support from sales or middle management, its typically a hard negotiation or non-existent. Expect to work way over 40 hours/week and juggle 10-20+ clients at a time. - Sales will oversell on product & implementation expectation which makes the job 1000% harder. Turnover with sales is extremely high so don't expect for even the best reps stay as they either leave, get fired because quota was not met, or the new manager will cut them if they're "not the vibe". You get left with the newbies who does not know how to sell or support you when you need them. - Every role in this company has high turnover in general. Making it very hard to cross collaborate with other departments as everyone is either extremely swamped or new to the role and cannot support as well, - Being forced to go to Oklahoma for training every year, sometimes twice a year.

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