Who are we kidding - Lead Software Engineer UKG Employee Review

1.0
5 Jul 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Co workers are great. Early releases before holidays Medical

Cons

Where do I start? The recent positive reviews on Glassdoor are mostly fake. I mean it’s painful to read them as an actual employee. The top management has changed and are forcing their decisions down the throats. I see lot of legacy Ulti employees blaming Kronos culture and to be honest legacy Kronos employees feel the same about legacy Ulti employees, but in reality the top management doesn’t care about what the legacy of these two companies was. Re org is being done which doesnt make any sense and is being in such a way that rollback would be impossible. Good people are being let go randomly and those who aren’t are actively looking to move out. There are town halls in which the new leaders who don’t understand any legacy culture keep on mentioning topics which no one understands. “Value streams” have come up some of whose org structure doesn’t make any sense. People are feeling frustrated but the top management no longer cares about people. It’s almost like current leaders have some animosity with either legacy Ulti or Kronos and this is their vengeance on the two companies.

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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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