Sage reviews

3.6

63% would recommend to a friend

(5,266 total reviews)
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Steve Hare

70% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

Sage has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 5,266 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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1.0
Aug 14, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Pension - and other good benefits. Colleagues - your teammates make it bearable On site facilities. Csr days There are good things about sage like the above but sadly the cons outweigh the pros.

Cons

Tech support are amazingly understaffed and overworked. It takes months to get new technicians on smaller specialised teams and the people waiting for new staff to help them are seriously overworked and stressed. The staff many moons ago were known nationwide as being the friendliest and best support people out there, are now battling huge queues, forced to push sales leads down people's throats as they have sales targets and the surveys that complain about the queues or the products count against the technicians. If you're on support, it's like you're seen as second class citizens, overworked and underpaid. Some bias there too, some of the managers are just yes people and if you raise concerns you're told you are "negative". If you're not a yes person too then you have a target on your back. It's great having csr days but if you can't attend as there isn't enough staff to Man the phones, whereas non phone based staff can go off as they like. Though there was a time when they let a lot of phone based staff off for the csr day, which caused huge queues and immense stress to those who remained. It's so sad to see the place fall so far. While yes a company should make a profit, but not to the detriment of the staff. What did Richard Branson say? Look after your staff first and they'll look after the customer. Not if you're in sage customer services.

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Sage Response
8y
Thanks for your review. It's great to read the benefits were well received as well as you enjoying the facilities. We are investing heavily in our office locations to ensure our fantastic colleagues work in exciting and pleasant environments and the Newcastle office, the spiritual home of Sage, is about to undergo a major refurbishment. The Sage Foundation, with its 5 days volunteer days for every colleague, is always well received by our people, charities and our communities alike. We always come across so many professional colleagues who do a great job supporting our customers. This involves not only solving problems but providing great advice and being commercially savvy enough to identify new products and services that help customers build their business. Our best Technicians do this extremely well, ensuring that even complex customer needs are fully met. I am sure you are aware we are striving to be a high performing team who operate efficiently and deliver great customer experiences. The overwhelming majority of our Customer Service Technicians do this well and achieve their objectives, this is clear from the superb customer satisfaction and first call resolution scores our customers award us. There is absolutely no doubt that the Technician role is a demanding one where you need to be creative, resilient and customer focused, however the opportunity to mature, develop and build a successful career is fantastic. The quality and success of our CS Technicians is demonstrated by how many go on to build very successful careers within Sage across a whole variety of functions. Many progress into Marketing, Product Development, Technology and Sales. Thanks again for your feedback and wish you well.
2.0
Apr 5, 2017

A strange culture and a busy place

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Pay and benefits are reasonable for the area. Good on-site facilities (canteen, coffee shops, parking). Working for a global organisation you can deal with interesting overseas issues, depending on which department you work in.

Cons

Sage's culture is one of the oddest I have experienced. There is very little investment from the top in ensuring a positive people culture. This means that any given employee's experience of Sage will be largely based on luck i.e. what kind of line manager they end up working for.

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Sage Response
9y
Thanks for your review. Pleased to read the pay & benefits work well for you and the facilities we provide are well received. Life at Sage is always interesting as well as challenging - we don't hide from the fact it can be hard, but it’ll be a rewarding one and leaving your comfort zone will help you grow in belief and as a person. It would be great to get some context about what you mean about deficiencies in the hiring process? Feel free to give me some further feedback - glassdoor@sage.com. I am delighted to say there is a project currently underway to improve our global on-boarding process - we do have an on-boarding portal for new starters (and before you start) to help new colleagues settle in quickly into their new roles. Thanks again for your review.
1.0
Mar 28, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

They have strong brand recognition across the financial applications/back office/ERP market sector.

Cons

Dysfunctional culture with an ever-changing management team.

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Sage Response
9y
Thank you for your feedback. Sorry things didn't work out for you at Sage. We have awesome products at Sage as you say and what makes them so great are our developers, product developers, our sales teams, our technical support teams and all the support teams too. Whether that's in US, UK, Australia, France, Brazil etc - we are one Sage and despite the recent challenges which came from the need to transform the business, our dedicated people continue to make, support, market and sell great tech. Sometimes we get stuff wrong, we are not perfect, but we listen and learn and remedy the situation. Let's take the new Leading for Leaders programme - a suite of modules all our people leaders will do (plus new leaders coming into the business). We want to ensure our leaders lead from the front, do the right thing and ensure our colleagues receive great coaching from them. Our people will see the difference once this programme is bedded in. Thanks for your feedback and good luck for the future.
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