Sage reviews

3.5

63% would recommend to a friend

(5,264 total reviews)
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Steve Hare

70% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

Sage has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 5,264 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Sage employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
Jul 26, 2017

Management need to walk the talk...

Anonymous employee
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Business Outlook

Pros

- Good location & modern office (London) - Talented people - Some good charity work

Cons

- Overworked employees- several people on sick leave due to stress - Hostile environment- blame culture especially in the supporting functions - Top management not living by the organisation values. - Extremely slow decision making when it comes to any financial requirements (e.g. Hiring/replacing manpower)

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Sage Response
8y
Thanks for your feedback. This is valuable for people outside the company but especially here, inside Sage. It would help Sage mature in its leadership and organizational mission if such feedback was shared with leaders prior to you leading (maybe you did already do this?) We would ask all colleagues (if they feel comfortable to do so) to talk with their manager and People business partner for help communicating ideas more broadly. Sage needs each and every one of its colleagues to be an agent of change. We recently circulated an colleague engagement survey to capture this kind of feedback for our leadership so hopefully you had a chance to also respond to that. We appreciate your insight and wish you well with your career, wherever that may be.
2.0
Apr 23, 2017

Technical support

Anonymous employee
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Business Outlook

Pros

The company encourages employee to do charity work.

Cons

To choose between employees and cost, the company prefers cost cutting. They would rather hires new staff with liffle expereince instead of retaining expererienced employees just to save a few bucks. The customer focus is really a lie.

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Sage Response
9y
Thanks for reviewing Sage. The Sage Foundation is fantastic for colleagues and charitable organisations alike - our people help change the lives of 1000s of well-deserving people across the globe. By far our biggest channel for recruiting is our internal channel, right now 26% of our vacancies go to internal candidates and in some countries this is as high as 45% which demonstrates the value we place of developing colleagues at Sage. Our business builders are massively important to us, and as our CEO Stephen Kelly says 'they are our obsession' - great customers supported by a network of fantastic dedicated colleagues. Thanks again and I wish you all the success with your career.
2.0
Apr 1, 2017

Trying to be big, act and think too small

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Nice offices (Great North Park, Newcastle) with good outside space to walk off frustrations.

Cons

Trying to play on the global scene but still think like a SME. Having big ideas but not putting resources behind them and expecting employees to give their all with no real incentives.

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Sage Response
9y
Thanks for your feedback. We're proud of our people and that's why they deserve to have great offices to work in - we've invested in our locations across the globe and we will continue to, so it's great to hear they are well liked by you...we are also refurbishing Newcastle this year as well...so, even more exciting. Sage does think big and is...from the world's first bott for accountants and now Pegg is the world's first voice activated bott for accounting too! We aim to make accounting invisible so the business builders can focus on their businesses. We've also announced a programme designed to empower the next generation with the AI and bot skills needed as the UK takes the lead on the global Bots and Artificial Intelligence (AI) movement. As part of Sage Foundation, over the next six months, Sage will establish a ‘BotCamp’ for over one hundred school-leavers and millennials, aged 16-25, giving them the opportunity to be at the leading edge of the technology industry. This programme is designed to be inclusive, and provide accessible technology skills that will help people to embrace, not fear, the 4th industrial revolution. 53% of employees are paid via Sage (in the UK), we are the market and technology leader for integrated accounting, payroll and payment systems as well as the UK's biggest tech company. Our people do amazing things - we build, we market, we sell, we support...our people are the best. We reward our colleagues well - whether pay, rewards, benefits, commission, bonuses, Platinum Elite etc. Thanks for reviewing Sage.
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