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Pega's products and solutions fit extremely well in the Financial Services, Health Care verticals where they spent 30 years developing custom solutions.  Feeling pressure to expand into new markets Pega created the Emerging Markets business unit to explore solutions opportunities in Manufacturing, Transportation, Utilities and Energy markets.   Without developed solutions the challenge to identify complex process problems with strong ROI and payback took time and which meant it was costly for the customer.  Project engagements ran into the millions and tens of millions of dollars with sales cycles taking up to 3 years.  California was challenging because we were an unknown vendor with no local peer relationships for our prospective customers making the sales proposition "risky".  Pega's strategy was a "rip and replace" strategy while our biggest competitor IBM was selling version upgrades.

- Ableist and unaccommodating management and culture
- Scrum/agile are present in name only: development strictly follows a waterfall process, and engineering does not take scrum meetings seriously
- Engineers are expected to spend several months on a client support rotation; however, this rotation is completely disregarded by upper management in performance evals
- Engineers are NOT BEING TRAINED AT ALL in the tech stack needed for the newer product development, and are essentially being set up to fail. This especially includes engineers moved over from the legacy stack, who have zero experience in the tools needed for the new tech stack from spending years on the legacy product. Complete mess all around

Pega is fine.  It's probably a good place for someone to start their career for a few years and move on or someone at tail end looking for something relatively comfortable.  It's probably not the best for someone in their prime growth years. 

 Process and operationally they aren't the most well-run organization in the world.  The stems from home grown solutions built up in silos over the years. 
It was surprising how much it functioned like a matrix organization for a relatively small company.  

The biggest challenge is the founder determines just about everything, so change is difficult. There isn't a culture of teams being honest about issues so complex business processes aren't generally fixed thoughtfully or completely. 

GTM strategy changes frequently and is largely ineffective outside their core group of customers. 

Pega feels like a start up that has yet to "grow up" despite huge boom in population growth over the past two years.

The proprietary products are innovative and serve a wide range of customers across many verticals.  Learning curve is steep but job security is good once you have the base/core product knowledge under your belt.

Engineering department is primarily young - 5 years experience or less with many college grads led by senior developers (some of which have been with the company since inception).

What is the best part of working at the company?
Great company. They offer training for new employees to become familiar with the Pega platform.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
You have to pass the Pega platform exam within 3 tries. If you fail, they will get rid of you.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
You have the opportunity to work with a diverse group of people stationed across the globe and time zones. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Typically, you are involved with multiple projects. Therefore, there are a lot of meetings to attend.

I thoroughly enjoyed working at Pegasystems.  Although the contract was just three months it was a great experience working with Pega and their company sponsors of PegaWorld 2016.  My job was to communicate all issues related to the event with the sponsor company, Tata Consultancy Services located in India. I was more of a project manager for this one company.  I was offered the contract job with the expectancy of going to the event in June, 2016 as Tata's partner concierge at the event.

This seems like  great company, many young staff members.

I reported to another contract staff member, and the micromanagement was overkill.  No communication, no speaking for that matter!  Could only speak/ask questions a 4:00 pm each day, which was not conducive to the clients asking these questions in different countries.

If you work with and for a great, experienced manager, great.  If you work for someone given more power than they should have, RUN, RUN FAST AND DON'T LOOK BACK!

Focused on growth and sustainability, excellent. Lots if emplyee resource groups to cater for DEI efforts however management does not embody the culture, they don't practice what they preach.  Lots of old boys/girls club / favoritism mentality which unfairly jeopardizes growth and stability for high performing talented and tenured employees. 

I worked at Pegasystems for 3 months during the summer as a software engineer intern. It was a lot of fun and you learn a lot about the product. Coworkers were great and very helpful and open to any questions. 

My main concern there was that the work I did at Pega was not applicable to other companies. There's an enterprise specific API and you're essentially working on one product so it may be hard to translate those skills. Other engineers there seem to have the same opinion.

I started at Pega as a Contract Sourcer and think it's a great model to learn the business, while getting your feet wet in Corporate Recruiting. The model is metrics-based and transparent, and the nice part is, Contractors work on-site and get to feel like a part of the team.

Most of the team has an Agency background, which I think helps prepare for the fast-paced environment. 

All of the management team started in the same Contracto Sourcing role so there is a ton of room for growth.

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