ADP reviews

3.7

71% would recommend to a friend

(22,275 total reviews)
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81% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

ADP has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 22,275 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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3.0
Nov 16, 2009
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Pros

Good Training... contrary to overwhelming support Great Resume builder Good comp if you produce Good Benefits Good upward movement... if you know people

Cons

Very Large company *45,000 employees - often get lost in the shuffle *In 5 years with ADP received a $25 Christmas bonus (1 time) *Numerous client issues because service cannot serve the large number of clients Lots of competition Market is already saturated with the big 3 (ADP, Paychex, Quickbooks) - you must create believers. When you resign - they choose to fire you - benefits stop that night! Very boring product/service. Hard to have passion about what you do... A means to an end if you care about what you are doing with your career/life.

1.0
Nov 10, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Very good health and child care savings accounts. ADP supports ongoing training, both in house and when budgets allow, external training to keep their associates current. Salaries are reasonable at the Director level and above.

Cons

Poor benefits; limited vacation allowance, expensive medical plans. ADP's lack of infrastructure investment is disturbing. The technology behind virtually all of their products is old, lagging behind their competitors and there is little support to upgrade. ADP's success is due to outselling their competition; senior executive management right up to Gary Butler agree that their products are not the best, but that they can outsell and out service the competition. Their sales staff are adept at steering away from product functionality because it doesn't compare to the competition. Where their competitors have automated through technology, ADP continues to struggle through labor intensive manual error prone processing. The company is hopelessly siloed with three disparate sales and service organizations which are based on their client's employee size; SBS (Small Business Services - less than 100 employees), Majors (between 100 and 999 employees) and Nationals (1000 employees or more). ADP does not have a central CRM solution, instead there are dozens of sales and service databases that do not talk with one another. This is a source of huge frustration for their clients and their own associates.

5.0
Nov 6, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Pro-telecommuting. Great benefits. Competitive compensation. Opportunities for advancement. Casual atmosphere. Employees are treated pretty well and there seem to be a lot of perks for employees. The company embraces the latest technology which allows for flexible work situations such as telecommuting which is definite plus, since it reduces the amount of time commuting to and from work and gives us back an hour or two every day to spend more time with family and carting kids around.

Cons

Giant company, can feel at times like a small part of a giant machine. Publicly traded company, so there is demands set by investor community so when cash flow starts to dip, you can expect the company, like any other, to layoff people and put the workload on remaining employees, which can be pretty rough at times.

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