SAP reviews

4.2

85% would recommend to a friend

(24,984 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 24,984 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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1.0
Feb 9, 2024

Heavy Process

Recommend
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Pros

Can't think of many worth sharing

Cons

Terrible, process-heavy company. Top-down hierarchy. Relying on customer's reluctance to switch away from legacy apps (similar to the mainframe computing)

1.0
Mar 30, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Nothing to say as Pros. Except for the company name. You work for SAP, thats the only pro.

Cons

Salary...... Even a begger will earn more. Fresher till senor most employee gets the same flat salary. Horrible place to work, no motivation to work. Reason given by management for low salary is, employees should work in shift, do weekends, take on-site jobs, or spouse is offered job. Have worked in multiple locations, SAP Ireland is THE WORST place to work. 0 facilities. All other location have at least few benefits and good salary. Ireland lacks/lags behind multiple things. Ireland SAP SSC is a shame on SAP.

3.0
Dec 22, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Company growth - They have created a great suite of products and services. There are many untapped markets in the world. There is also a great potential to grow their existing client business. It doesn't take much to capitalize on it. It's just a matter of having the right people "on the bus" to maximize returns for SAP shareholders. Culture - Very inclusive, friendly and warm place to work. Lots of great people (don't confuse this as all of them are the best candidate for their respective jobs). Can be fun. Most teams have autonomy to innovate. Work/Life Balance - Most managers allow working from home some or all of the time (for the right people). HR - Their HR team seems to be a solid group of competent professionals, despite the recruiting arm leaving much (all) to be desired.

Cons

Recruiting has been known to lie - There are countless examples of people who were lied to about their title/level and their next move in company. Backwards titles complicates this further. This coupled with much of my other feedback lead to great employees either leaving the company, or leaving and coming back (which the CEO, SVPs, and many other leaders have done). When it comes to hiring your own team, people managers have to do the majority of searching for candidates (provided they want to assure they get the best person for the role). Most mid-level leaders are afraid of and/or avoid confrontation - Bad to mediocre employees aren't disciplined, and over-achievers aren't reward commensurate of their impact. I'm not sure anyone has ever been put on an action plan (let alone fired) at the company, which makes those that are (below) average at their job think that they just have to wait to be promoted. Leaders try to contain over-achievers by promising a bright future if they just wait, then offer you everything you want(ed) when it's too late. Senior leaders lift up concerns about employees, so do said manager's people, and yet no material corrective action is taken resulting in their great employees moving on. Wrong or right, this gives the perception that managers are more concerned with being everyone's friend and are happy with where they are, so they state that "everyone here is great" to make things easier vs having tough conversations or potentially ruffling feathers by having some on a faster track than their peers. Top down management style - A lot of mid-level to senior leaders don't take constructive criticism well from their employees. They get the majority of their direction from senior executives, then generally tailor to what their plan was, which delays or fractures career promises (moving targets). They no doubt mean well, but don't seem to realize that if they are authentic 98% of the time, employees are still left guessing when the other 2% is occurring (and if they can truly rely on them for their best interests). Additionally, when you ask them why overall company projections or a product launch deadline were missed, you tend to get boilerplate excuses. Seniority can breed complacence - The most people I've ever seen in a company that have been there for the majority of their career. That's generally a good thing, but many of these people don't have a competitive background for their position that one would expect from an SAP/leader in technology. Diversity (including in professional experiences) is a good thing. A lot of the leaders that have been with the company for the majority of their career likely wouldn't be at the same level at any other comparable company, and many didn't go to school for what they are doing. Perhaps they realize this, so they never leave, and are fine with mediocre employees on their team as it won't challenge their position in company. Because many haven't worked at other major companies, they don't know any better, generally given false positive reviews on their managers and for Concur as a best place to work. Little to no value is given for having advanced degrees (nor do leaders encourage their employees to pursue them) as the company seems to think consulting companies and annual conferences are the only thing needed to help with on-going education efforts.

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