CPP Investments Employee Reviews

Overall a good place. So many meetings that could easily be an email. And feedback is not always direct. workplace culture, management practices and leadership effectiveness is very much dependent on which department someone works in.

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Good brand name and pay well. Toxic environment

Portfolio manager (Former Employee) - Toronto - 23 June 2023

Company looks good on your CV. They also pay well compare to other financial firms. After all it's tax payers money so they don't care about cost.Environment is toxic though with most having a cocky attitude, thinking that they are much better than other pension funds.

Pros

Comp

Cons

culture

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Insights into CPP Investments

Based on 7 survey responses

What people like

Clear sense of purpose
Time and location flexibility
Fair pay for job

Areas for improvement

Energizing work tasks
Trust in colleagues
General feeling of work happiness

Positive and Bright

Administrative Assistant (Former Employee) - Toronto, ON - 13 June 2023

Honestly, one of my favourite places to work. Benefits are top of the line. People, for the most part are lovely. Lots of alliances to support a positive and diverse and inclusive workplace.

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Meh

Analyst (Former Employee) - Toronto, ON - 22 April 2023

You can do betterSo many other placesIts really impressive how low compensation people are willing to accept in order to get "experience" in the industry, its sad and exploitative.

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Good place to work

Analyst (Current Employee) - Toronto, ON - 19 March 2023

Decent pay. Good company. Work can be grueling during quarter ends. Sometimes not much structure. Chill environment for the most part and very good benifirs

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productive and exciting place to work

business transformation (Former Employee) - Toronto, ON - 9 January 2023

- Good company and benefits- Job Security rates high- In my personal job experience I had to be on call overnight and that part wasn't the best.- Lower Level Management can be worked on.

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Fun workplace

Sr. IT Analyst (Former Employee) - Toronto, ON - 11 October 2022

- Good company and benefits- Job Security rates high- In my personal job experience I had to be on call overnight and that part wasn't the best.- Lower Level Management can be worked on.

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Didn’t appreciate willingness to grow and do things beyond job description

Administrative Assistant (Former Employee) - Toronto, ON - 26 September 2022

Didn’t appreciate willingness to grow and do things beyond job description. Not a friendly environment. Wasn’t any flexibility at time I worked there.

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Competitive, political environment

Analyst (Former Employee) - Toronto, ON - 8 September 2022

I found that as the organization grew, it lost a lot of what made it a good place to work at one time. It became a very competitive environment where most people were out for themselves in order to move up the corporate ladder. This included keeping information to themselves instead of sharing it with colleagues whose jobs would be made much easier by having that information. It was also very political, a bit chaotic. Prior to covid, they were not a remote friendly company so it will be interesting to see what will happen after covid. They do pay well and offer an excellent benefits package.

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you work in global teams, learn something new every day

Manager (Current Employee) - Toronto, ON - 22 June 2022

I have found the learning that i have gotten here to be so valuable, and people are always willing to spend the time to explain things. You get to work on global projects and get exposed to a level of complexity that makes the work interesting. It does mean there are some team calls outside work hours, but you can flex your time if necessary.

Pros

Scale of the global platform and interesting work. People are nice

Cons

can be intense so make sure you are up for that but if you love what you do, you will love doing it here

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Jobs at CPP Investments

Administrative Assistant, President’s Office

Toronto, ON

21 days ago

Managing Director, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

Toronto, ON

2 days ago

Senior/Intern Analyst, Trading

Toronto, ON

9 days ago

Intern/Senior Intern Analyst, CPA Program

Toronto, ON

21 days ago

Not much growth/Good work-life balance/Minimum team culture

Senior Analyst, Finance Analytics and Risk (Current Employee) - Toronto, ON - 20 January 2022

If you end up in the operation department, your chance of growth is pretty limited. Job content does not require you to advance your technical skills/fundamental knowledge. Management does not favor those who progress into certificates/higher education (since job does not require those knowledge). Slim to none team culture. I won't even expect people to say hi if they run into each other outside work.Good work-life balance. You can log off at 5.

Pros

work-life balance

Cons

no growth and team culture

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Not as inclusive as they say

Manager (Former Employee) - Toronto, ON - 4 January 2021

The work culture is old fashion and punitive. Depending on your role there is a huge concern of being de-skilled. Pay and benefits are generous and bonus is quite good. However, if you leave the company you might not be as competitive with your peers in the job market. The work culture is not as diverse and inclusive as they like and they do not crack down on inappropriate behaviour.

Pros

Generous benefits and above industry pay

Cons

Senior managers and above get away with inappropriate behaviour, company org structure is disproportionate including mostly senior people

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Silo teams

Quantitative Analyst - Public Markets Investment Risk (Former Employee) - Toronto, ON - 23 October 2020

No interaction between teams. Bureaucratic. Takes long time to get approvals. Business stakeholders don't respect technology teams . Most teams have a database under their desk in their own systems

Pros

brand name

Cons

slow pace

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One of the most stressful places

IT Consultant (Former Employee) - Toronto, ON - 10 June 2020

The place doesn’t respect your work/personal balance .. no transparency.. disrespectful directors and management .. it is reflection of the upper management messages percolating down ..

Pros

Good money

Cons

No stability or transparency

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Great place to work

Administrative Assistant (Former Employee) - Toronto, ON - 8 April 2020

Great team , lots of in house training and seminar . Able to meet with people from other departments. Flexible with work from home and supportive . I would recommend this place

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New CTO has not clue what she is doing

Sr. Developer (Current Employee) - Toronto, ON - 30 March 2020

Worst CTO ever met, start multiple projects in not just different but contrary directions. Dictate what she wants and barely hear what other senior staff said. Bring her buddy in, kick out good people, bring her consultant firm in, kick out existing excellent vendor.

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Great workplace

Project Manager - Data Systems (Former Employee) - Toronto, ON - 30 March 2020

Awesome work environment to develop your career and learn new skills. Great supportive management who has the employees interest at heart. Totally reccomend.

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Overall Experience

QA Consultant (Current Employee) - Toronto, ON - 21 February 2020

Working at CPPIB was great. I really enjoyed my time here. My team was wonderful and work was not very stressful. full control on job/life balance, closer to eaton centre so location was awesome.

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Productive and fun workplace

Administrator (Former Employee) - Toronto, ON - 18 February 2020

Very team oriented culture, management very approachable. Excellent work environment for employees. Dynamic leadership that is very considerate about employee wellbeing.

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Very Stressful Environment

Senior Business Specialist (Former Employee) - Toronto, ON - 12 February 2020

This company has a weird culture. The manager who hired me was excellent. After another manager took over our team, the culture was completely changed - very stressful.

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A high performing, collaberative organization with the highest integrity.

Director - Finance (Former Employee) - Toronto, ON - 26 December 2019

It was an honour and privilege to have had the opportunity to work at the CPPIB. It is first class organization that cares about employees and a place where what you do and how you perform matters to every Canadian.

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