SAP reviews

4.2

85% would recommend to a friend

(25,026 total reviews)
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76% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

SAP has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 25,026 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The SAP employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
Apr 13, 2012

I dread going to work!

Anonymous employee
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Pros

It's a job that pays me money. I can wear jeans and work from home. There are a few nice folks who work there. The shenanigans of the CEO and other upper level executives provide amusing stories to share with friends and family.

Cons

Too many layers of management. Very top heavy. For example, in one department, there might be 3 middle managers with 4 direct reports between them. Company doesn't stick to it's "no-jerks" rule. Managers are quick to point out mistakes, usually in a rude manner, but when trying to point out that a manager has made a mistake, it is total "radio silence". Their ego's are too big, apparently. Seems to be a common theme at SF. Pay-for-performance is a joke. A remote employee who sends too many emails to their manager (located in another city/state) is dinged on their performance review for poor communication skills and doesn't receive a raise. There is no feed-back from managers beforehand to keep things like this from happening. Too many daily emails consisting of disingenuous nonsense from the executive level regarding how awesome we (meaning "they") are. Lars is the worst. Always sharing irrelevant stories about attending the Grammy's, bragging about phone calls from his Porsche dealer, or waxing poetic about his friends museum-quality art collections. He seems to have no clue how to relate to his employees. Too much a** kissing. Upper level executives have a tendency to behave like cheerleaders and pat each other on the back (marketing and HR are the worst). Definitely a "look-at-me-aren't-I-awesome" culture.

1.0
Feb 20, 2012
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Pros

Working at SAP provides the employee the chance to learn from very bright colleagues. Often able to work remotely 2 or more days a week

Cons

SAP is a coporate, political jungle where the best and brightest ideas, insights, and even questions are stiffled. IF there's even time to do it, very few meaningful learning opportunities exist beyond e-learning and learning on the job (often under less-than-ideal conditions). The top performers, <10% of the workforce get the most development opportunities in an effort to keep them from leaving the company. Interesting since most people leave within 3 years and they (the 10%) are the ones who need it the least. There's very little trust at SAP and work/Life balance does not exist at SAP. Your workload will almost always be enough work for 2 - 3 people. Because it is a global company, it is common to start your day at 6am (sometimes as early as 3am) with a conference call and end the same day with another meeting at 9pm in order to accommodate colleagues in a different time zone. 3 - 5 year strategic plans change significantly every few months. That means that the work done for projects and/or objectives that were agreed upon at the beginning of the year was all for nothing. There are multiple re-orgs and people change managers (assigned new managers) like they change socks. I had 6 manager changes in 4 years.

2.0
Dec 5, 2010
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Pros

- Free food and transport - 4 day work from home policy - Makes you so lazy that you will not look out for any other opportunity!

Cons

- Managers work on pre conceived notions. - Managers take opinion from your co workers and act upon it instead of making their own judgement -lack or no travel opportunities -not a good place to start ur career if u r looking for good work. -salary very poor when compared to other sap subsidiaries -bad feedback about managers to senior management will have no effect. -Management prevents employees from going on site for the fear of attrition. -No direct customer interaction. -Opportunities are given to the same people over and over again and again.

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