Lots of politics and German-focused - Software Developer SAP Employee Review

3.0
Dec 24, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great benefit and health insurance. Great middle level manager (at least mine is) Work-life balance Got interesting products, the latest technologies to work on. Culture is friendly, warm. Actively engage employees. The company is steering to the right innovation direction. Nice, smart colleagues. Very stable.

Cons

I love this company, but it's not without its problems. Hopefully, someone can read this and help to improve SAP. 1, Politics is prevalent. Favoritism is popular. 2, Seniority still favors over meritocracy. 3, Discrimination is pretty prevalent. There is a big difference in treatment between German/White/Germany-office employees and all others: - Same job but German/white people always got higher titles even they are hired at the same time, in the same department and doing the same things. It applies to everyone in my department. Needless to say to salary will be different. - Slow promotion for non-German/non-white employees. - A number of people just got promoted to managers because they are German. I know a few German managers who are doing very little, know literally nothing about the field they're managing, always on vacation but still got promoted quickly to director and VP. It's so crazy. Germans employees sometimes are pretty arrogant and don't value the opinions of their colleagues. The above reason also makes the product is uncompetitive because the weak managers who oversee the products have little knowledge in the relevant fields. 4, Heavy processes which really slows down the innovation. 5, Inadequate equipment. E.g.: impossible to request for 2 monitors.

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SAP Response
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Thank you for taking the time to provide such detailed feedback. We know you care and so do we. So appreciate it. Please know that if you are facing favoritism or discrimination this is something we do not tolerate. Every day we strive to engineer solutions to fuel innovations, foster equality, and spread opportunity for our employees and customers across borders and cultures. And we have processes in place to prevent mistreatment of others. The one thing I personally love about SAP is how we as employees have respect for others. A diverse and inclusive workforce keeps us competitive and provides opportunities for all. Together (our employees, our customers, and society) we can transform industries, grow economies, and sustain our environment. Again we are very sorry you had a poor experience. You mention you have great middle level manager, we encourage you to reach out your manager, or your HRBP, and/or our HR Compliance team (hrcompliance@sap.com) to address your personal matters and are confident the team will look into your specific issue. Please keep us posted on how you make out and we will look into this as well.

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