ADP reviews

3.7

71% would recommend to a friend

(22,270 total reviews)
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Maria Black

81% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

ADP has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 22,270 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The ADP employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informatique industry (3.9 stars).

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4.0
Sep 24, 2014

Educational

Recommend
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Pros

ADP has an outstanding benefits package. Training is available to any who want it. I am currently making use of the tuition reimbursement program and management has been exceedingly accommodating. I've learned a lot about myself as an employee.

Cons

ADP seems to have the practice of squeezing water from a stone. That is, ADP will work people to the bone and beyond before they even think of filling a position on a team. The trend towards smart-shoring (hiring associates from areas in the US with a lower cost of living) and off-shoring (hiring associates in India and the Philippines, or moving certain functions over there) does not make operations as efficient.

1.0
Aug 21, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

It was a good place to get started in outside sales. I did not have any outside sales experience, only inside, and they gave me an opportunity where many companies would not even consider me because of lack of experience. Also, they have great rewards for performance. I loved that. I haven't worked for a company who is better at rewarding performance regularly. They made it a lot of fun when you were excelling. They also have great training. I loved that we went back for additional training in our second year, though I think it could have been less focused on Autopay upgrades when I wasn't even allowed to sell those!

Cons

Unfortunately, my rose colored glasses were kicked off my nose during my second year at ADP. I was loving my job at first, but my manager decided to take a manipulative power trip and really hurt a lot of people. What did the Sales Exec do? Not a whole lot. What did HR do? Nothing that I could see. He is still working there and I am shocked! He is the reason why a lot of really good people have left ADP from that office. Although the pay increased quite a bit last year, which was very nice, it did not make up for the way we were treated. My manager pit people against each other and I got to the point where I dreaded getting a call from him even though I was doing really well with my numbers. Another really not good thing about ADP is that they have way too many people involved in each aspect of solving a problem. As a sales rep, I could not talk to the people who were going to help my clients. I had to go through another person who would pass it on. Then HOPE that even though it was sent to management and supposed to be taken care of within 24 hours (ya, right, never happened) that my client would actually get help. Then, the client calls in and talks to a different person every single time they call. Oh, and it isn't a payroll related thing? It is a tax issue? A bank issue? Anything in detail at all had to be transfered to still ANOTHER office -- and sometimes, you were transferred only to find out they actually weren't the right person to begin with. Terrible when it comes to customer service. I was left feeling like there was nothing I could do to help my clients when they had a problem, which is a terrible feeling when you live in a small area where reputation is everything. One of the most frustrating feelings was when I thought I had turned everything in to get my clients up on Full Level Tax, only to find out near the end of the year or the end of the quarter that we weren't going to actually be filing the quarterly/annual report for our client. How can we tell them we guarantee that then not give the sales rep the information needed to make sure things are complete? I was never given good training on this so I did not even always know what I needed to pick up.

1.0
Sep 15, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

It was close to home.

Cons

One of the worst IT jobs I ever had. Like being in a little boys club on a rudderless ship. ADP takes the word disorganization and raises the bar to a new level. Right hand has no clue what the left hand is doing in this organization. They all know that certain things that have outdated and incorrect information, but not one person takes the time to clean it up to make the job more efficient. Clean up aisle 6? Just use 5 and 7, and you'll be fine. Meetings are overrun with endless boring conversations of Disney, pickleball & Frisbee-golf. I worked here for over a year and we had a manager for about 2.5 months and he quit. They have had outage calls that lasted more than 2 days and you'll be stuck on these calls taking notes for other departments outages. The criticism from some loud employees in this department is too much to take!

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