SAP Software Developer reviews

4.2

89% would recommend to a friend

(1,887 total reviews)
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Christian Klein

78% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

Software Engineer/Developer employees have rated SAP with 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 1,887 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineer/Developer professionals have an excellent working experience there. SAP is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Engineer/Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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3.0
Dec 24, 2017
Recommend
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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
8y
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.
5.0
Dec 6, 2017

A great place to work

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

SAP offers various advantages, but most important is that it has a corporate life. The quiet comfortable situation for a developer.

Cons

It's still a big company and it will depend on the project on which you work. So things can be slow sometimes but again it will on your team and the project.

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SAP Response
8y
Thanks for your open review of SAP. We appreciate you took the time to leave us some feedback. Glad to see you're enjoying your time here.
5.0
Nov 27, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Friendly Environment, good teamwork, great start salary, oportunity to work with the new languages and some older ones.

Cons

Its a bit hard to adapt because of legacy codes and specific tools. A bit far from the capital of the state.

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