I was let go over a year ago, and it took a while to get my footing back. I’m so much happier where I am now. UKG is all sizzle and no steak. They have a fake-it until you make-it approach to business. A ruthless private equity firm calls the shots, and phony agnostic puppets in their offices execute the orders, This place lost its soul years ago.
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@OP Fake it Until you Make it - Excellent! I can't think of a better way to describe that company.
I left on my own term. Making about 30K more in same field and less work than at UKG.
Just want to let everyone know to not not lose hope. There is life outside of UKG.
Do just enough. Enough to not be on PIP but not too much that it will be expected of you. Don’t k*ll yourself for RSU awards that will take 3 years to fully vest. If you have too many, you will be on chopping block.
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“HOUSTON WE HAVE A PROBLEM”
Quality went down hill since July 2024. Then yearly bad decisions on reducing costs instead of investing strategically to protect their core assets(people) and reputation - UKG is in trouble
Fault is on the decisions made by executive leadership team made then. Now employees pay the price being over worked(due to the quality issues) and pushed to the very limit. H&F needs to clean house current executive leadership and get back to basics running this business
Cut engineers with deep experience with quality engineering, cut years of domain experience, 90% development moved to India, lack of quality process and control experience within development teams in India(green teams), key leadership positions also moved to India losing decision control of Quality
Impossible to go public for UKG - CFO indicated that the market is not ready for UKG while stock market makes all time highs, does not make sense other than no market demand for UKG business model. Now trying to rebrand with the AI Hail Mary, no way it works - it’s just putting lipstick. Got sooo wrapped up in AI losing focus on what matters most to customers, QUALITY
And a new putting green was put in front of office building, so nothing to worry about, all good - carry on
“HOUSTON WE HAVE A PROBLEM”