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SurePayroll

Part of Paychex

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Bad place for anyone that cares about Software - Software Developer SurePayroll Employee Review

1.0
Feb 7, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

MSDN, Pluralsight subscription, though the subscription is kind-of useless as you will not get to apply any new technology that you learn.

Cons

The company is run by senior leadership who has little to no regard for technology. For them, its all about getting it done in the shortest possible time so it looks good on their cost charts when they present their reports, no matter what. Leadership, PMO(yes project managers in the age of agile) and executives trying to influence decisions at every turn. They claim to be agile but the only part of agile they follow are the scrum meetings to give you the illusion of agile. Developers work mostly with legacy applications, extremely old technology with most of the code base in aspx and mvc. A significant portion is even in classic asp (yuck) and VB. A lot of the application code is so old that you will spend days figuring out a bug that would taken you a few minutes had it been rewritten. But that's not a priority for management, so half of your job is fixing antique complex code that breaks to keep the SurePayroll boat floating without having any knowledge why it was written that way. Projects are driven by PMO and senior leadership, so any project that is appealing to you, is not appealing to them and will not get prioritized. They don't care about your growth or you learning and building new stuff. Managers will talk about it to keep you happy, but they have little to no pull. There are mainly two groups of developers here. One younger and energetic developers/leads that were recruited under false promises of new technology. Another group, who don't really care about learning or technology and are here to retire. The first group has a high turnover. That is not an environment you want if you care about not become obsolete in the technology world. A lot of times you will find yourself debating people on useless stuff like about why to change to an industry standard when the old process written a couple of decades ago works. All positions are stagnant. There is no growth unless someone above you leaves, and he probably left for the same reason. Pays are low, Pay increments are insignificant every year, less than the rate of depreciation. Another interesting thing I noticed while I was there was that they are not honest with you about what we work in, in interviews for new positions. You will hear about Containers, Cloud, breaking up Monolith in Microservices, Angular, etc. Its how they get you in. You will barely see that here, senior leadership is too technologically inept to ever go there. Its all talk. The only actual new technology was a small Angular project that an outside contracting firm build for us. So, you'll hear management say we did so and so in Angular. We didn't. An outside firm did and we got to barely touch it. Let me summarize, If you are a developer that cares about learning, building on new technology, cloud technologies, about being marketable for future jobs, stay away. This place will kill your innovation and desire to learn. If you are looking for a place to sit, relax and retire (assuming they are still in business) without having to learn anything new, this is the place for you.

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Pros

Good pay, decent benefits, unlimited time off.

Cons

From the start, it was uncomfortably obvious that at least half of the people in marketing had problems with one another. You could actively feel the tension in every interaction: during video calls, in email threads, even in Slack chats, etc. At first, I blamed structural issues. The various marketing teams were set up in a confusing way, and it wasn’t clear who owned what or who made final decisions. So I understood why everyone felt like their toes were being stepped on. However, I really think it goes beyond that. There’s a fundamental lack of respect, and it’s led to an extremely negative and passive aggressive environment. The pay is slightly above market value, which is what led me to accept the job in the first place (despite one of my pre-employment interviews with the team being so tense and uncomfortable that the hiring manager actually had to apologize). However, I really wish I had trusted my gut. My experience at SurePayroll was by far my least favorite of my entire career.

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