Sage reviews

3.5

63% would recommend to a friend

(5,257 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 5,257 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
May 11, 2016

Toxic working environment

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Pros

We had many, alas none are left.

Cons

The upper management is out of touch. The company has been going downhill for a while, and the ship will keep sinking. It is definitely not a technology company as they may claim. While focusing on sales with no foreseen market growth or investments, their strategy is no less than "milking the cow". The culture on the otherside.. Wait, there is no company culture anymore. Everyone is overworked, with low pay and no more benefits. The morale is as low as it gets. I have never been happier to leave a company.

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Sage Response
10y
We are disappointed to hear you have a negative opinion of Sage. As a colleague, we are sure you understand our strategic growth plan is designed to transform in a way that will benefit our customers as well as our colleagues. We can’t discount your feelings, but the culture is alive and well. There have been new efforts to inspire true collaboration and spirit, this is evident in the programs we have aligned to our communities through the Sage Foundation. This is just one way we can focus on providing a positive work environment. We recognize that change can be hard, but we are confident that these changes will ensure a stronger management structure that will enhance the lives of our colleagues. Please reach out and provide additional specifics by contacting glassdoor@sage.com. We wish you the best in your future endeavors.
2.0
Apr 19, 2016

Not Really a Tech Company...

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Business Outlook

Pros

Sage has a large new office in Atlanta. It is supposed to up our game and take Sage into the future.

Cons

Over 90% of this company's software are desktop products. No one here has ever been a part of or created a SaaS product. Great for programmers over 35 who just want to be told what to do.

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Sage Response
10y
Thank you for your review of Sage, your opinion is important to us. As a current Sage colleague, your passion for innovation is evident, and our company’s long-term strategy aligns with those same goals. Our commitment is to provide our customers with advanced technologies and an array of cloud-based SaaS products including Sage Live and the Sage “c” products. We thrive on supporting a community of entrepreneurs and we value you, and all of our Sage colleagues, in your efforts toward success. Again, thank you for sharing your feedback.
1.0
Feb 3, 2016

Product Manager

Recommend
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Pros

Sage has been around a very long time and has grown through acquisition in multiple regions. If you're in the UK, this is probably the company to work for as it is headquartered in Newcastle and has the market for small and mid sized business software.

Cons

If you're in North America, my advice is to consider all your options before coming on board. Sage recently went through another round of downsizing to justify the growth in other growth areas of the company. Frankly speaking, the North America business has been struggling for some time now and with some unrealistic revenue targets set by the executive team, the North America will continue to struggle for the foreseeable future. Before you consider coming in, make sure you are interviewing for a role in a global product because this is where the future will be. If you're looking to be hired in any of the legacy solutions, I suggest that you think twice. All of the legacy platforms are built in legacy programming languages used over 20 years and their interpretation of modernization is nothing more than a pretty UI. We call this lipstick on a pig. In addition, beware when you hear the terms "One Sage" and how they're transforming to be a technology company. Internally, "One Sage" has been interpreted to be "The SK (Stephen Kelly) Way." As for it being a technology company, the extend this company can really go is their ability to tweet as much as they can to give off the image that they are a technology company. If you don't believe me, see how many tweets the CEO and the company puts up on a weekly basis. Internally, many believe that the CEO should be spending less time tweeting and more time selecting the right executives instead of keeping legacy executives such as their CTO, CFO, and CMO. Multi national companies are a thing of the past - if you want to win, you need to break things up the same way other multi national companies have done recently. This last bit is my personal opinion and a prediction on what I think will happen by 2020. The CEO is hoping to monetize and grow the global products and he's putting a tremendous amount of investment in these areas. If it succeeds, he likely get revenues to a point where it can sustain the company globally and spin off the legacy products in the various regions. If he fails to generate the revenue, then he will have no choice on his hands but to keep certain high revenue generating products, change out the executive management, and keep churning until he reaches his revenue targets. Either way, Sage is in a very rough ride the next 5 years.

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