Ultimate is a great place to work but is suffering some growing pains. - Anonymous employee UKG Employee Review

3.0
Aug 30, 2010
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Ultimate provides excellent employee benefits. The company takes great pride in treating employees as valuable people. In general, employees treat each other with respect. All levels of employees show tolerance for race, religion, lifestyle preferences. Most employees care deeply about the customer. Not many companies can boast about these cultural traits. Scott Scherr is loyal to his commitments.

Cons

Upper and middle management is lacking in leadership and in some cases technical skills. Many managers are new to the company and do not understand the product. The majority cannot perform the tasks of those they supervise. It is administratively top-heavy. There is a lack of mentoring. Opportunity is offered to those that "say what the upper management wants to hear".

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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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