Pegasystems Reviews

Pros

Pega fosters innovation and hard work. There are a lot of very smart and motivated people at Pega. There is always opportunity to get involved in new areas and to have a voice.

Cons

Unfortunately, you really need to know your stuff to be heard at Pega. There are a lot of very talented and experienced people that join the company and feel that their opinions are ignored until they have earned the respect of the folks at Pega - which usually comes with a mastery of the Pega technology or business processes/practices.

Advice to Senior Management

Pega needs to embrace the ideas and enthusiasm of new employees and realize that there are other (sometimes better) way to do things effectively both in regard to the business and the technology.

Pros

-Unique, brilliantly engineered product with a solid foundation for future growth and improvement.

-Opportunity to work with talented and motivated colleagues, among the best in the IT industry. As someone said, if you're a nerd passionate about technology, you'll love working here.

-Most clients are prestigious Fortune 100/500 companies. Projects are high visibility delivering complex and vital business solutions that easily adapt to changing business needs providing faster turnaround time compared to custom development or competitor offerings because of the "Build for Change" philosophy that the company has religiously adopted over 20 years in building its PRPC product .

-Oracle, MS, IBM have been trying to acquire this company for years...

Cons

-100% travel.
-Work can be sometimes very challenging. Overtime is expected as they ask your willingness to work overtime in the job application itself (for Professional Services, don't know about other depts).

Advice to Senior Management

-Keep focusing on improving the product taking it to the next level.
-Keep your employees happy.
-Maintain leadership in BPM

Pros

- Small, but growing aggressively
- Cutting edge technology, best of breed
- Nice work life balance and support from management
- Growing partner relationship
- Very Supportive management
- Easy to navigate through the people
- First Name level relationships
- Easy access to resources (specially engineering and product management)

Cons

- Still small as compared to next competitor
- Big challenges and competition against giant software vendors
- Some level of corporate bureaucracy

Advice to Senior Management

- Doing well, just keep taking care of your people
- Establish more partnerships with Mega software service providers and vendors
- Keep transparent and open communications

Pros

we are proud of our product, constantly strive to make it as the best product in the market, constantly change the ways we solve problems, adapt quicker to cloud, HTML5 and other changes more quicker than other companies.

Cons

Very hard schedules to keep up with, more work to be done in reasonably little time.

Advice to Senior Management

Things can be much more transparent to people working in the company, the releases are planned to address a customer's requirement and very little effort is spent on improving the performance of the product.

Pros

Market leader with high growth potential. Great company with excellent products. One of the top 10 fastest growing technology companies.

Cons

Work-life balance is a challenge if you work in professional services group which requires 100% travel. Health benefits are not as comprehensive as in Fortune 100 companies.

Advice to Senior Management

Need to create better incentives to motivate employees to stick around. Average tenure in professional services is about three-four years before burn-out.

Pros

Cutting edge technologies to work with
Great established product
The leader in BPM
very talented peers
Growing company
Innovative management
Friendly HR

Cons

Hierarchies are less
Compensation could be higher
Though people get their chances for foreign tour, but frequency is too low.

Advice to Senior Management

Be cautious while recruiting fresh talents and engage more lucrative policies to retain the talents. Introduce more hierarchies. Spend less on celebrations..

Pros

- Great technology
- Good group of consultants
- Great Client experiences

Cons

- Very flat oganization; litle room for growth
- Travel is 100%

Advice to Senior Management

restructure and provide more opportunities for growth

Pros

Found a very good niche in business software, very dynamic.

Cons

Hi turnaround recently, fast growth problmes.

Pros

1. Superb product
2. Excellent and focused employees
3. Good training
4. Fair on-target compensation
5. Great vertical marketing
6. Getting better at sales development

Cons

1. As Pega grows, the red tape increases out of proportion to company size.
2. Senior Management are aloof and arrogant.
3. Even when a sales opportunity is closable, don't for one minute think you can pursue it - the deals are done by the the CEO at the price he wants.
4. HR is chaotic and permeate a blame culture
5. Do not pay for home office expenses and despite great results, the financial controls are getting more strict.
6. Unless you are very remote from HQ, you have no say - in anything.
7. Work life balance is not something in the vocabulary - unless you have an excellent manager
8. Very ppor base compensation

Advice to Senior Management

1. Devolve control to your able staffers.
2. Start reigning in Sales operations
3. Defuse the blame culture
4. Life/Work Balance issues - you need to look at ths VERY carefully
5. Overhaul HR
6. Start paying remote office expenses.

Pros

Great PRPC expertise...
learn from the actual developers
Upto date with latest version of PRPC

Cons

Everything in your managers hand
Hikes vary a lot even among peers (some get lot and some not even penny)

Advice to Senior Management

Build more transparent processes
Why should the manager know about how much someone is earning