CalPERS Reviews

Pros

Management is smart, practical, focused.

Cons

One downside -- team members aren't required to be in the physical office more than three days a week.

Pros

Decent pay. Plenty of opportunities for promotion in analyst roles. Low stress environment. Little overtime

Cons

Required 3 days per week in-office. Study program isn't great (75 study hours for most ASA exams). Few opportunities for analysts to do high-level work or use cutting-edge technology

Pros

You get a paycheck and a pension.

Cons

The FO is full of Nepotism and is making it a horrible place to work. The Division Chief and the Controller are driving the place off the cliff. It has a very mean girl feel to it and it's a race to the bottom. The CEO and the other Executives just voted themselves a huge increase in their annual bonus while losing money for the taxpayers.

Pros

Pay is good. Benefits are great like any state agency.

Cons

No culture. CEO does not listen to employees

Pros

- Flexible, understanding, and supportive managers - Helpful and professional team culture - Huge applications to support (MyCalPERS/MSS) and lots to learn and build - Good work/life balance, overtime is rare - I feel like my work is valuable and has a direct impact - Probably the best job security you can possibly get

Cons

- Huge organizational structure with lots of teams and sub-groups, so your experience will vary depending on the people you end up working with - No in-place promotions. If you want to promote, you have to fill a vacancy - People who have worked there a long time make the most money regardless of performance/output - Small mistakes and errors in judgment in analysis/design phases of big projects can snowball into stressful development later on. It takes practice to execute projects well, this is the risk of waterfall - Individual recognition is somewhat sparse, although there are avenues for it - Quite a few state employee developers are not really qualified to do complex software development and are not comfortable with it, but have been working there a long time - Low pay compared to the private sector unless you stay long enough to get to the top of the pay scale for your classification, but then you will eventually reach a cap where you cannot get any more raises - Lots of people here are already at the pay cap for their classification and feel stuck in their career - Very slow to fill vacancies, long hiring process

Pros

Beautiful office, nice location to be

Cons

Can be very high demand

Pros

meaningful mission / great team

Cons

frequent senior-level turnover / inconsistent direction from the top / very siloed between divisions

Pros

Great campus and work life balance. The managers care about growth.

Cons

Not many remote options available

Pros

Great Company to work for!

Cons

No cons to working here.

Pros

People are nice and helpful. A lot of employment benefits for long term full time employees. Good place to come to before retiring. Good WLB.

Cons

Slower growth because since it's a government institution, you can't initiate any project of your own, let along doing work in other departments if you are interested, because of security reasons.