Q&A With Pegasystems Employees

401k and healthcare. Pega spends the absolute minimum on both.

Our benefits team is awesome! Tuition reimbursement up to $7500 annually, commuter benefit up to $200/month, a fantastic wellness program, and a wide variety of healthcare plans so employees can choose the plan that best applies to their situation.

Terrible and toxic. Management is abusive towards individual contributors. You are always judged on what you did last, and they make it very clear you deliver or you get fired.

Great people, but the systems and processes are not designed for a company of Pega's size. Internal systems and processes are improving but need work. This causes a stressful work environment at times.

Looks like this one person has gone and answered every question in the negative...They were probally canned for being a downer. Seriously, look every negative response was posted 5 months ago and they all sound like they're from the same person. So was it Pega, or was it this one person that was the problem?

Basic questions to verify that an employee could warm a seat and maybe write a few lines of code.

Layoffs are sudden and not based on performance. They’re clearly cutting costs so the more senior you are, the more likely to be cut.

Poorly. A handful of employees are fired each month, and those changes are never communicated.

Varies by role and country. In the US, when starting out, I believe you have 10-12 days plus a personal day and 10 major holidays. Year-to-year carry over is 10 days. You gain days as you move up in role and years. Typically, you should give advanced notice of planned PTO. And please don't come in sick. :)

There is a two dimensional scale based on pay grade and years of seniority, but HR guards it closely so as not to empower employees.

Get out while you can. As long as your time at Pega is short on your resume, recruiters will understand given their reputation.

Congrats! You've joined a Super team. Hang in there. ..The first month will feel like a fire hose. Don't be afraid to ask questions and don't worry if everything isn't clear. The basic simple answer is Pega Can!!

Depends somewhat on which office you are interviewing in and what role you are interviewing for. Most engineers are interviewed by engineers, who won't pay much attention to what you are wearing. Nice jeans or pants. Fashion sneakers or dress shoes. A button down or a blouse. Jacket and tie are definitely optional. Dress in the nicest version of you, where you are still comfortable. Unless you are going in front of customers or interacting with upper management, dress is fairly relaxed for most of Pega.

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A couple of managers who refused to give their names at the time of the interview, and none of the actual workers. HR was very slow to respond to anything.

The Pega interview process is long. It took me around 2 months the first time when I hired in.

It's not. Management is decidedly child-free, and uses people taking care of their families as a black mark against their promotion.

Everyone is pretty much 9-5. Those who need accommodation seem to get it.

It's frowned upon. Leadership likes looking on the people at their desks, and ensuring they are in early, and working late.

The team is generally pretty supportive of the need to work from home, as long as it is occasional. Working remote is generally somewhat limiting, but has been offered to employees for retention.

It's only a couple hours ultimately, but they make you wait between meetings and waste your time once you're on site.

Typically it takes 2-3 hours

Broken - Product Management is and old-boys club that is regularly abusive to employees that believes all engineers are lazy by their very nature. Engineering management has given up on protecting their staff, and lets people be abused until they quit.

Each team has a reasonable level of autonomy. Different teams have different cultures. Some are very close and others are more groups of individuals. Pega has been following scrum and has full-time scrum masters, but the composition of the team and work that they do vary how the teams interact.

Terrible, and getting worse. All of the good people left ages ago, and only the dregs are left.

Continually improving. Pega has been growing and has reorganized every year or so to make marked improvements. Upper management is some of the best that I have seen, and middle management has been changing to a more supportive role. Product Management and Engineering Management are working closer and closer together each year.

It varies, and I believe it is about to get changed. It will likely take about 3 hours. You will get interviewed by a couple peers (the people you would be directly working with), your manager and their manager. The higher level interviewers will mostly introduce you to Pega as a company and technology. The peers will likely ask you to walk them through some of your experiences and may give you some challenges. There is often a test for engineers to take. Do not expect to get 100. Do expect to talk through some of your answers. This is often the most interesting part of the interview.

If you are going in front of customers, a higher level of dress is expected. Jacket, but tie is optional. If you are not going in front of customers or upper management, then dress code is fairly relaxed. Jeans, t-shirt, hoodie, sneakers.

Small desks packed into rooms with glass walls. Very easy for you to be observed, and ensure you're not "wasting time" on your own persona life or needs.

Very. The company doesn't like employees wasting time socializing.

It was very poor. It should have been a red flag to me.

You really don't want to. Please look somewhere else.

I would have preferred to have worked elsewhere.

Someone who does the work they are told and does not talk back, regardless of how crazy the demands are.

The interview questions are extremely basic.

"Why can't you start sooner?" Trying to guilt trip me when setting boundaries about my start date.

"Why can't you start next week?" They didn't care about my personal life, and tried to guilt trip me about having one. That should have been a red flag, and I should have quit right away.