Pros

- Work life balance
- Vacation time
- Compensation is withing the norm for the industry
- Parking is becoming more and more available as positions are eliminated
- An overly complicated code base that will keep engineers employed for decades

Cons

- Highly political work environment with a great deal of back stabbing
- The organization is lost technically without any real leadership
- Most talented resources are wasted
- Product Management hasn't a clue about technology
- Scrum implementation is pure torture
- Middle management behaves like a pack of wolves
- Upper Management is clueless
- Product quality has become abysmal
- The engineering buildings are a dump
- Not enough power to actually run their own IT infrastructure

Advice to Senior Management

Get a clue. Your code base is overly complex, and nothing is really being done about it. Engineering Managers have no idea how to deal with people.

Pros

-Solid management
-It's not the most exciting place but the grass is not always greener on the other side!

Cons

takes a long time for change to happen. My immediate management was always very good but some of the very senior management semed averse to change.

Advice to Senior Management

Be willing to take some risks!

Pros

Great benefits
Remote office is left alone and insulated from the rough parts of corporate culture
Using Agile development processes (kinda)

Cons

Middle Management doesn't get the process we are trying to use
No room for moving up
Remote sites are often last to get tech.

Advice to Senior Management

Get your middle management on board with Scrum and Agile, or get them out. You could fly then. Quit looking to follow, be the leader you are.

Pros

The company is flexible and they allow you to figure out things of interest with in reason. If new initiatives are backed by senior management they can happen quickly with out a lot of internal collaboration.

Cons

Kronos currently looks to promote outside the company so most people who work for the company stay at the same level they came in. The company does not seek out new initiatives and better ways of doing things in general. Kronos is slow to move the ship when it does take the time to initiate something and has little attention or patience for details that would make them more successful in the long run.

Advice to Senior Management

Kronos needs more stratigic direction at all senior levels. Senior Managment is to focused on the day to day issues and don't analyze the long term issues. One of the reasons the company is so outdated on its internal technologies.

Pros

Up until this year there were regular raises even for those that turned in a mediocre performance. Growth opportunities in some areas and opportunities for training and education. Most of top management is personable and approachable.

Cons

No security and lots of bureaucracy ever since we got taken over. Expected to do a lot more for less and less.

Advice to Senior Management

Recognize who the talented productive people are and try to retain them. Stop allowing "long timers" that do nothing coast along doing nothing. If you don't, once the economy picks up again all the talent is going to leave.

Pros

Kronos has great products and has a strong management team. The company continues to do well and you can see how your contributions impact the company.

Cons

While senior management is strong, middle management can be more caught up in CYA than in getting things done. It seemed like no one wanted to let the CEO know what was going wrong, because how it may make them look instead of solving the problems and moving on.

Advice to Senior Management

Kronos went private for a reason. Sweep out the dead wood and prepare Kronos to be an even more dynamic and competitive company.

Pros

Work/Life balance - Kronos has always been understanding and generous with time off requests and special needs.

Kronos was financially sound and secure until just now.

Compensation and benefits were good.

Career opportunities always available.

The company is fundamentally fair, respectiful of its employees, honest, and ethical.

Cons

Kronos was financially sound and secure until just now,seemed to have missed the boat a little with the recession and financial planning.

Communication up and down the chain of command tends to get cut off at the middle management.

Technology is old and out-dated

The company is highly risk-aversive.

Advice to Senior Management

Senior leadership isn't too bad, but tend to isolate themselves from their people, are rarely, if ever, seen dropping in with their people, even if just to say hello. Without this it is difficult to build grass roots trust, support, and loyalty

Pros

Stability as it's been in operation for over 30 years. Year over year growth is comforting especially during these economic times. The employees are great, the Executive Board is quite personal (those that have been with the company since the beginning).

Cons

Salary and bonus compensation are less than similar companies. This used to be more acceptable as there was a work/life balance and an overwhelming sense of teamwork. Since the company has gone private, there seems to be more work with fewer people to do it and the culture has changed. There is a sense of tension and emphasis on making the company profitable.

Advice to Senior Management

Do salary comps for employees.

Pros

No body else will hire you. Your love of timeclocks. Kronos is a steady employer. The problem is that they do not offer a pay for performance environment so the longer you stay the less you get paid in real dollars if you are an overachiever.

Cons

Poor pay. Cronyism. Execs out of touch with reality.Senior management has no formal business training and has botched one acquisition after the next. It is not the acquisition, but the follow through that leads to success. They are too tied to their past success in selling clocks to make any progress since they fear losing out to new ways of thinking.

Advice to Senior Management

Retire and get someone who went to business school to replace yourselves.

Pros

In a down economy - any job that pays the bills is a good job.

Cons

After going from public to private - benefits were lost and not made up in other areas. No more stock plan. 401K is not 100% matching even if the company makes it's numbers. Uncertainty as to the future of Kronos given the H&F buy-out relationship.

Advice to Senior Management

Despite the "spin" - outsourcing is cotsing long time employees their jobs and thus effects moral. Asking non-commisioned employees to "tighten their belts" and not travel for reasons like profesional developement - after we all know that the expenses that are associated with Sales and Service meeting - followed immediately by KronosWorks costs the company extravegant amounts of money seems totally unfair! I can guarantee you that if I ever submitted an expense report that was even half the amount of some of the sales folks - the scuitiny would be severe.