Pegasystems Reviews

Pros

Good pay, benefits, culture, intelligent team, lots of opportunity to grow as an individual - You will learn all about strategic business and organisational design and how to enable strategic execution; learn about leading software solutions that truly enable digital transformations.

Cons

Leadership is very US centric, but good thing that they now have Industry Champions locally.

Pros

After being approached and then interviewing with Pega I took a moment to research Pega's culture, leadership and products. Historical reviews had me on the backfoot. The interview process was through their internal recruitment team and they were honest, engaging, really detailed and highly professional (rarely the case based on my experience). It was great to have regular updates throughout right up to day one and they made my journey smooth and stress free. Day one to now has been wonderful. I made the right decision. I joined a number of new hires in a new employee induction day and i found all the leaders to be open and friendly to employees at all levels. The technical people appear to be really at the top of their game (nice to finally talk tech with people who get it). The business is truly flexible (not just a sales pitch unlike others). They have accommodated my family and needs and even their benefits like health insurance is a real winner for us. In fact Pega's benefits are the best I have found in my 20 year career. Loving watching our shares rise. The business is culturally diverse and has no borders globally. I'm glad that i didn't judge a book by its cover and trusted that my positive experience having been approached and throughout the interview process would matched the culture , professionalism and values of the business. It did and i joined at a very exciting time.

Cons

I'm known to find the negative in most things with some thought. If i had to find one i would say that it would be nice to hear more from your direct manager about what your first weeks will look like prior to commencing.

Pros

Lots of opportunities to implement DevOps and SRE principles in Pega Cloud Benefits - Free private health insurance in Australia, Fitbit and many more Work-Life balance Employee friendly top management

Cons

Sometimes processes seems to be overhead for operational work

Pros

Great product with lots of intelligence built into it

Cons

Steep learning path and lot of passiveness into it

Pros

Software is very strong albeit a bit complex. It’s really best for hard problems at large companies with real exec support - some things like the customer decision hub are truely market leading and there are truely great customer references. There are genuinely smart and good people on the coal face.

Cons

There are people who have been in senior positions locally and at the very top in hq that don’t have a modern work ethic. If you are not used to 90s style hierarchy and culture you might struggle here. I think they feel that pressure creates diamonds and I think that attitude is probably not resonating with staff these days and turnover has been high. They are trying to be Salesforce without telling anyone - marketing is no more that a few events a year targeted at existing customers. They have built a very big services business and compete against partners. Services is a large part of revenue and they can’t let go. Their target account/ industry model is so restrictive sales people need to get lucky with account assignments if they are ever going to be successful.

Pros

Very good benefits - long term incentives through share options, family health insurance, bonus structure. Great products that have the potential to make a real impact for clients. Consulting and corporate teams work very hard and there are many genuinely nice people.

Cons

Asia Pacific & global senior management structure is based on the, "old boys network". If you are in sales and/or prepared to just do as you are told you can get ahead. The politics of having the right personality is how the culture operates. You are a commodity to the business and expendable. Do not suggest any ideas that are not, "on message", as you will be made to look stupid. It is the US way of doing things, even if that approach does not work in the local region/country.