Fun laid back place to work, not necessarily full-filling though - Software Developer Paychex Employee Review

4.0
Mar 3, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good company, lots of freedom as software developer. Had the ability to come up with my own ideas about the best way to implement the pieces of the software that I was given. Requirements were well documented and reviewed by the group before development starts. Requirements do frequently change but they are willing to listen to ideas, and even make changes based on developers inputs. The work environment is fairly laid back, people often take 10-15minutes breaks during the day to talk to other people. Overall the work was enjoyable and you had the opportunity to create something that would be seen by end users.

Cons

The pay and benefits was lower than other similar jobs in the area. Performance reviews were not overly helpful (but also didn't go into the typical go fill out this spreadsheet and tell me what you did this year). Managers are interested in their employees but don't necessarily have the power to help them. The first line managers were mostly ex-engineers who moved up the ladder and eventually decided to put on a different hat. Some of them choose to ignore the problems they were having as software developers once they were managers, and some didn't. They are all competent though.

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Pros

Leadership connections, tailored growth pathways, and self-guided development

Cons

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Pros

Lots of apps and gadgets are nice...when they work, but many of them don't work and tech support can't figure that out.

Cons

Micro-management to the Nth degree; meetings all day; training part of every day; and you'll still get manager calls to ask what you are going to do, what you've done, and what you will do, every single day, and how you're going to get 8 hours of sales calls into your day after wasting 5 hours on managers check-ins and meetings. Expectations are that you'll work long days, evenings and weekends either regularly or on a moments notice--you will have NO personal life. Rookie sales tactics, shotgun scatter tactics, and insanely high prospect call requirements will make a majority of your territory clients hate your guts (Denver manager wants 500 customer contacts per week! And I only had 215 prospects accounts). Many of my clients pleaded and begged me to leave them alone because me and the past 4 reps (in only 2 years) have been phoning, emailing and texting constantly. Some of them were former clients who dropped us for bad service, so there is no need to call but you'll have to. Some of them previously and respectfully let us do a demo, make a pitch, and give a quote, but then chose our competitor, and yet the Denver boss would insist that I call them twice a week indefinitely...just in case. The commission contract is 27 pages long and excludes everything under the sun. They will even take paid commissions back from you if the install team messes up and the customer cancels the contract. And then if you can stomach all that misery, you will likely make 1/3 of what they tell you to expect to make. NOBODY makes what they tell you is the ANNUAL AVERAGE except for 2 to 5 reps who get lucky with big deals and then never repeat that again, so it isn't an average for anyone, not even the top 1% of hundreds of sales reps. In a nutshell, this is big corporate misery and lies and privacy invasion like you have NEVER seen before. Try it at your own risk, and suffer.

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