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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2K reviews
3.0
Sep 10, 2017

Positive

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good work cluture if you are in non cloud team

Cons

Work life balance will be bad if you are in IoT/Cloud based teams

4.0
Aug 29, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- People are usually nice, you can virtually reach out to anyone in the company in various locations by email/phone, someone can help you out - Benefits, stock options, but recently transportation benefit was capped at 120$ which means people who park in the office need to pay the difference from their pocket - Pretty stable company, the only major layoff happened in 2008 - Occasional international travel (Germany;-)), IT conference program, trips to customers, top talent fellowships with relocation - If you work hard (50-60 h week), usually the management realizes and gives different perks - Challenging projects, you might get good customer exposure or experience working with customers directly

Cons

- Underperformance is not addressed, every team has 1-2 slackers, sometimes very hard to achieve goals if several people simply come to work to collect the paycheck. In other companies these people would not survive but the manager would not address the issues because of fear to lose headcount. - My team/manager doesn't allow working from home - Scrum teams with many different roles but not so many developers ;-)) - Fat layer of product and solution management, shielding from customers - A lot of talented, motivated developers have left the team since no progression in the career happened - Technical level of expertise of employees is lower if you compare with other top IT companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple (feedback from ex-SAP employees) - Montreal is still a small location on the outskirts of SAP empire, everything happens in Walldorf, Germany which means if you reached T4 level (expert) your career is mainly finished, since there are no positions of T5 level in Montreal - Constant fight over projects with other locations, Walldorf dictates most of decisions on architecture and product level - Having sunlife as a provider of medical insurance results in wasted time fighting over medical expenses (a lot of claims are rejected)

5.0
Aug 29, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Opportunity to grow , very rich culture

Cons

For now I can not really find any weak point

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SAP Response
8y
Thanks so much for your positive review. We hope the rest of your team shares your positive sentiment!
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