Sage reviews

3.6

63% would recommend to a friend

(5,253 total reviews)
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Steve Hare

71% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

Sage has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 5,253 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
Dec 6, 2017
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Pros

Plenty of parking Canteen staff are really lovely You get more twitter followers Payroll messed up my tax code and put me on emergency tax so due a refund

Cons

First time in my 25 year career do I feel the requirement to leave a review on Glassdoor to warn others thinking about joining sage software. Promised high bonus at interview, which was just a lie, I smashed all my targets/objectives and got £0 Never before have I witness or experienced shocking behaviour. New Northern Europe Managing Director joined, left after 6 months. Fastest evolving door in tech, most people want to leave within 3 – 6 months of joining. I had no on-boarding, look’s brilliant from the outside, family days, charity time, but all done for a positive spin to cover up the toxic culture. They do have foundation days, but the whole team was told couldn’t attend any as too short staffed, but to 50% vacancies which they couldn’t fill. 80% of VP/Director time is marketing themselves on Linkedin / Twitter taking selfies Bullying is rife across the whole company driven from VP’s who only have interest in themselves looking good. I had my first holiday at month 10, got made to feel terrible for taking any time off and spent the whole time on holiday responding to emails. Unethical performance management, people are put on “needs improvement” positioned as a way to make you a better manager, but it’s just a way for Sage to get rid of people who don’t fit into the boy’s club. Sage, think’s it’s a performance environment by saying it, but it is the furthest away from being a performance environment. Customers are leaving to competitors like Xero / Quickbooks at an alarming rate. Senior people working out of the Shard in London they think they care about small business, but just focus on software price increases and pulling forward annual subscriptions to ensure they hit the numbers. (contract realignment) CEO is the ultimate spin doctor to ensure the market doesn’t look under the hood. Real shame as was a great company, but all the real talent is leaving at an alarming rate like their customers. I hope Sage fixes these issues quickly, I was once a customer and been friends with lots of the people that made Sage the market leader.

1.0
Dec 5, 2017

Wow, just wow.

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Pros

As others have stated, the cons overwhelm the pros

Cons

No bonus for you… Said the fat, smug cats whilst licking the cream of their lips. Externally Sage has announced they have achieved their targets, hurrah for the shareholders and the board. Handshakes, massive pay-outs and slapped backs all round, good job men. Good job. Internally, we have not achieved our targets that are linked to growth in subscription numbers by a measly 1%, so no bonus for all the hard work put in over the year. Never mind chaps, there’s always next year. Back to the internal target and the GIANT elephant in the room… so internal targets are linked to growth in subscription numbers which is fine, and was probably achievable. We all understood this at the start of the year. But, hold on, didn’t sage suspend all subscription licences for Sage 50 in favor of a discounted perpetual licences for at least 1 month during the final push to year end? Yes, yes we did. So wouldn’t that effect the final subscription rate? Err…. Some questions you need to ask yourself before considering sage; do you want to work for a company which clearly undervalues and undermines their staff? Do you want to work for a company that uses a forced bell-curve review process? Do you want to work for a company that has in the past sent emails to colleagues to fire them? Do you want to work for a company that is run by a politician and his cronies, some of which have a sting of disasters in their past? It’s over to you.

1.0
Mar 19, 2016

I am Sage....

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Sage has good employees who genuinely care about customers. However, many of them have left or are on their way out. The company provides average salaries and benefits. Nothing to get excited about but at least they offer something.

Cons

I am Sage. I am a mediocre business software company with no real direction other than "reorganization". I am Sage. I punish employees who attempt to innovate and only allow creativity if one of the upper management staff comes up with an idea (i.e. steals it from subordinate employee and takes credit for it). I am Sage. I treat my employees as disposable resources. No one is valuable and I show no loyalty to them unless I need something. I am Sage. I believe the number of tweets my executives send will make us more successful in the US market rather than producing functional technology that customers want to buy. Please follow us. I am Sage. I will take away employee bonuses and terminate employees until our financials look good on the books and then turn a blind eye to how we have destroyed the internal structure and morale of our company. Don't ask how we are going to meet our numbers next year. I am Sage. I believe the closeness of the Atlanta airport is an amenity for my employees. (Yes I think staff truly believes that). Potential employees, take some time to sort the reviews on this site by Date and not Popular at the top right hand side of the first page. You will see this company's ratings are in a nosedive and have been for a while. Sage recognizes this and is in a panic which is demonstrated by their "planting" of reviews by upper management and Human Resources on this site. Any time you see terms/ phrases like "onboarding process" "being a change agent" or "Sound Leadership" make note these reviews are planted to combat the truthful reviews from employees. This behavior is an exact example of how their management strategy has gone wrong. They feel the need to spend more time spreading misleading information on this site to cover up real problems than improving on what's wrong in the daily workings of the company. This is not surprising because after some reflection on some of the most recent reviews Sage would have to admit that the root of most of their problems is a stagnant and ineffective leadership team who make bad decisions and have an inability to manage and motivate their teams.

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