This tool is helping us drive the right kind of clarity into our development and progression programs for employees. It centers around competencies for each role, which are visible to the entire organization. This creates a huge leap forward in creating both transparency and equity in how individuals are level-set across the company. And it puts individuals back into the driver's seat, by helping them understand what's behaviors and skills they need to demonstrate at their current level as well as every level above them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The tool is still in its early days, so some critical admin reporting features aren't available yet which are important for us to drive usage and understanding of how our people are using the tool. I'm in regular contact with reps at Pando and know a lot of this functionality is on the roadmap or currently being developed so we fully expect to have more self-service control soon. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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After implementing, our team has shared that they love the transparency of levels and what moving up looks like. They love the simplicity and consistency of competency ratings from their manager (as opposed to a big empty text box and a subjective rating/ranking based on nothing). They love how easy it is to share feedback with their peers and their managers. They also love that it shows our company's focus on career growth and progression. Even our CEO has been singing its praises in company All Hands meetings! The support team made implementation easy and remained communicative throughout our first year to make sure we were aware of new updates and got all our questions answered. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The implementation process definitely takes time – it's a big committment up-front if you want to get the full benefits of the system! I met with every department lead to get their input on appropriate competencies for each team, but that also helped us get engagement up at the start, since leaders felt bought in. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Pando has been able to offer a product that is not just a SaaS tool. It combines consultative support with technology in order to create an environment for leaders to support their teams with career progression and performance management. It doesn't stop there. It provides employees with clear expectations on skills and competencies for their role and roles within the company they want to consider developing into. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
No downsides to Pando other than they are an innovative and disruptive leader in this space. Organizations and leaders have to be ready for how this product will accelerate their talent's growth. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Their competency library and consultative approach meant that we got my entire company leveled with just a few manager workshops and one rollout. Reliable levels allowed me to build compensation bands, improve recruiting processes, run a merit increase process. That was huge.
But I love that Pando seamlessly integrates leveling and performance mgmt. Pando is the first solution that truly allows us to ditch the cumbersome annual performance review. It gives execs more visiblity, managers an easier way to give feedback, and employees feel connected to their own growth.
The Pando CS team is amazing as well - they are right there any time I need anything. Even as a very small customer we get white glove service. They've co-led internal trainings for us, advised my CEO, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
There's not a lot of downsides that aren't already on the product roadmap. I've had lots of feature requests but the Pando team has a great philosophy on performance and have been aligned to my requests so a lot of what I want to see next is being built. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The transparency and clarity around careers is the most helpful thing about Pando. We have several roles and rubrics setup that show the expectations for each person at their level but also giving them insights into what other roles are available, and the expectations of those roles incase someone is interested in moving to a different area of the business.
The feedback element of Pando helps us all take ownership of our careers but having actionable feedback delivered at the time of the event from our peers and colleagues. This means we are all helping each other to grow and learn in the organisation.
The goals feature allows us to see how our individual contributions make up company wide initiatives at a strategic level while also being able to track the tactical goals that an individual contributes towards too.
The assessment process in Pando is extremely thorough, focussing on the competencies an individual is expected to be working to in their role at the level they are at. The ability to postively rate where individuals are at allows them to see the things they are doing well at and the areas of opportunity within a given competency.
We have integrated the platform with Slack as our primary communication platform and that integration on an individual basis is very straightforward. As we use Slack daily, we see the notifications from Pando daily too so we can get value from using Pando very quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
When done properly, the amount of time a full assessment can take is quite long. Although the process is time consuming, my personal feeling is that the amount of time invested is worth it to provide a significant amount of value between a team lead and the team member.
The integration with Slack is done on an individual level, it would be a lot simpler if this was done on a platform level so everyone has the integration enabled by an administrator. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
We transitioned from our own Mastery Tracks to the Pando full-fledged system, which offers well-thought-out rubrics and a wide selection of competencies, allowing for highly customized rubrics. We appreciated the flexibility in building rubrics that suited our needs, as well as the scalability of the product. Additionally, the granular assessment of each competency enables incremental growth, unlike the binary system we used previously. Pando is straightforward to use, the team is very receptive to feedback, and very customer-focused, so we feel heard and experience a constantly evolving product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I wish there was a smart way it integrated with Todoist, so the goals could somehow 2-way sync with Todoist. As a productivity company with our own task manager, we are struggling a bit to get buy-in from the team to use another product for setting goals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I love the transparency Pando offers our management team and our individual contributors. There is no more guess work around where people are in their growth or development. Pando's team helped us structure an expansive set of levels that allow our team to grow as IC's as well as Management without feeling stress to follow the professional norms of the industry. It also makes conversations and feedback easy between managers and employees. Our employees can now take their career into their own hands and see exactly what core competencies and behaviours they need to show in order to grow their career. Having the ability to.input and manage goals allows managers to gauge exactly where they employees are in their initiatives and objectives which allows for good feedback.
Because they connect to HRIS systems, it makes onboarding hassle free and allows us to connect leveling and accounts directly to our onboarding process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I personally cannot wait until their is a 1:1 meeting function where employees are able to see real-time feedback and notes between them and their managers directly on the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
How simple both the implementation was and the UI for employees to get up and running and optimize usage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Probably not a dislike but right now their Team has to create the rubrics for all new roles - I know it's on their roadmap to have this as a feature but it makes me
As a client feel bad to have to be needy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Pando offers a really innovative approach to defining career tracks at your company to help employees and managers navigate conversations around career development. This has always seemed like a daunting task for an HR Operator, and working in a scaling startup, this can sometimes feel like a moving target.
I was responsible for implementing the Pando solution in our company of just under 100 employees. Our people were really excited for transparency and to have clarity on how we view compentency achievement and career progression. Pando's framework helped out managers drive deeper conversations in a more collaborative way that factored in feedback from across the org in real time. The process of designing and deploying the tool was very engaging. Highly recommend working with Pando! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
After developing a solid plan for our career levels, we also had to conduct a market analysis and revisit our compensation bands. I wish Pando had more resources to help with bringing the career levels in parity with the compensation structure. I believe this might be an offering in the future which woukd be high value! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The platform is cost effective and easy to manage! I have used other software for employee reviews and I like the transparency and career development focus of this system. We picked Pando based on the cost, functionality, ability to grow with the software and the staff at Pando. I've been impressed with the customer service! Implementation was very custom and we had hands on help from Adam at Pando. Many systems expect you to set things up yourself. That's not the case here! Adam is also always open to feedback and ideas!
The tools allows our staff to view competency rubrics for our values based competencies and also functional competencies. No one can credibly say they don't know what is expected of them when you are providing the level of transparency that Pando provides! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Because Pando is a newer product, at times we need to be patient with product updates or new features. However, this can also be an advantage because Pando does a fantastic job of seeking out customer feedback and passing that along to their developers. I have the opportunity to suggest features and sit in early stage v1 meetings to introduce us to new features that are coming (ie: meeting memorilization and note taking).
Your staff might feel they are duplicating work, by providing feedback and having coaching conversations verbally or in other systems and then needing to document it again in Pando. This is more of a systemic issue that Pando is mindful of and looks for ways to make it easier!
I wish it was easier to integrate with Rippling our HRIS tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The ease of use of the platform
The support of the Pando team
Centralisation of information that contribute to someone's career progression Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Reporting and analytics insights still limited at this point but is under development Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
