Slow to change externally, Internally is a different matter - Business Development Manager SAP Employee Review

3.0
Dec 27, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The customers, SAP customers are some of the most loyal I have ever met and I loved all the interactions that I had with them. SAP takes a pretty conservative approach to change and taking on new trends, but when they do decide to take on a trend they tend to go all in. The employees are pretty loyal as well, you are paid well and treated well for the most part.

Cons

In my years at SAP I loved it, great work, new products, they do push that they are the 'Innovation Company' but they lack an innovation strategy, they are so far behind their competitors in many regards. HANA was a blip and put them ahead but I left because I wanted to innovate with my customers and SAP was too slow. The amount of re-organisations that happen, change is good but I always felt change at SAP put everyone 6 months back. You get pigeonholed at SAP, if you come in with a specific skillset, trying to move to other places and technologies is hard, Advancement is a challenge as well, unless you are very political. Once you get into management, you then just become a manager and you become stagnant. You don't have the autonomy that you get in other fast paced organisations.

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SAP Response
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Thank you so much for your review. It's unfortunate to hear of the issues with management. The mission of our leaders is to drive innovation, but we want our employees to enjoy what they do. We appreciate your feedback and sorry to hear that the team did not work out for you.

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