Used to be a good place to work - Anonymous employee PanAgora Employee Review

1.0
23 Oct 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Nice office, great views, and fresh fruit every week.

Cons

Long-tenured management was forced out and replaced with incompetence and hidden agendas. The CEO recently retired and was replaced by a PM. It is anybody’s guess how this change will affect PanAgora’s market position. The COO, if he had his way, would have people work 16-hour days. The CTO was previously a developer, so all his decisions are one-sided and development-based. He knows nothing about the other side of IT, infrastructure, which keeps the business running. Sales are non-existent. Investment groups continue to underperform year after year. Assets Under Management keep shrinking.

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5.0
20 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great place to work. Very friendly, highly collaborative, expert level staff in all departments. It’s a very sticky place. There are a lot of long-tenured folks and a lot of former employees come back for a second tour. The many custom systems allow the business to be highly productive and do more with less people.

Cons

The downside of having so custom systems written over many decades is that there is a lot to support, upgrade, update & refactor, across a healthy mix of varying paradigms & design principles. Also, that the systems enable more to be done by less business users, ironically, creates an illusion of a high IT to business employee ratio. However, improving the software landscape could be appealing to those that embrace a good challenge. And for those that do, they’ll find that IT leadership is honest about where things stand, highly motivated to improve, and has a lot of great minds to move things forward.

5.0
5 Jan 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Had to work with Large Language Models, quite interesting

Cons

Nothing in particular that comes to mind

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