Sage reviews

3.5

63% would recommend to a friend

(5,260 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 5,260 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
Oct 18, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

They pay for your MSP.

Cons

I was in the technical support of their most developed product as bilingual tech support. Sage is an awful company to work. The managers always put pressure on you to take calls. You get warnings and they chat you as soon as you are not right on time with the rules. You have basically 4 mins after call to get back in queue. If you want to go to the washroom, they will chat you right away to ask why you are not on queue. They give you the illusion of a career plan, but it's fake, they need SO MUCH french speaking that they will never let you go. Once you have reached the support it's forever. Also something really bad that I had to go through pretty much everyday and which shows how poor is their management: managers are thinking only about their stats, so as soon as a call was reaching 30mins of waiting time in the queue, they were asking to bilingual agents from a different product, to pick up the call and ask if they wanted a callback (which never happened) or to put them back in the queue. However, because you picked the phone if you put them back in the queue, they start waiting from the beginning so they might wait an extra 30 mins. The only reason for that is the stats of the manager. So, they are supposed to provide the "best customer experience ever" but it's actually the opposite, only the stats matters even though employees are stressed and tired and customer angry.

2.0
Sep 11, 2017

Only if... they truly cared

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The people are amazing and friendly. Helpful, for the most part. Some really try hard but their promotion process is INCREDIBLY long and bureaucratically AWFUL that they quit and get other jobs that deserve them.

Cons

The sales and Sr. technical support people for the Sage 50 queues are rude and unprofessional. Management is either micro-managing you or you have some that couldn't give a poo about what you're doing, they just don't want to be bothered. You will never get the elusive 10% bonus they bait you with. In the 5 years I was there, we never met sales goals and never saw a true "bonus", only fed pipe dreams and told support needs to pick-up where sales slacked off. I wish I could say that corporate cared but in reality, they're only interested in how good they are and how much money you can make them.

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Sage Response
8y
Thank you for taking time to give us your feedback. We agree that our people at Sage are the best, not only professional but friendly too. In FY17 we launched our leadership development programme ‘Leading at Sage’ which aims to develop the skills and behaviours of all 2,000 Sage Managers. Our ambition is to ensure that every day our Managers challenge and support our colleagues to do their best. We want Managers to coach their people and recognize and appreciate those that go ‘above and beyond’. 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. The Sage Talent Review recognises high potential talent and helps future stars achieve their ambitions. We also help colleagues develop themselves and all colleagues are encouraged to have a personal development plan to help their managers understand their career ambitions. For all colleagues, there’s also further guidance on personal development available on Lynda.com via Sage Academy. We want everyone to achieve their career ambitions and be the best you can be. Thanks again for your feedback.
2.0
Jun 10, 2017

Lawrenceville office

Anonymous employee
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Pros

A few of the people who work at Sage are qualified and want to do a good job and provide good customer service.

Cons

Top management is constantly changing focus and direction- no clear vision. They have laid off a lot of people recently who had a wealth of experience. Because of those exits, Sage now has a huge gap in productivity and direction.

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Sage Response
9y
Thank you for your feedback and taking the time to write a review. We agree with you that our people are fantastic and are committed to doing a great job - from creating innovative new products for our customers, to marketing and selling them and offering superb customer service. Our vision is laid out by our CEO, Stephen Kelly and through his VSGM (vision, strategy, goals and metrics), all of us set our own goals to ensure we are all aligned. Having said that, change is constant and we are continuing to make changes to ensure we better serve our customers. Your insight is invaluable and will help us to continue to strive to do better. Thanks again.
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