Sage reviews

3.5

63% would recommend to a friend

(5,261 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 5,261 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
Feb 11, 2016

Terrible place to work

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Sage is a global brand and internationally recognised, has a strong foothold in the market and an established customer base.

Cons

Culture of high turnover, poor morale among staff. Training not as advertised, horrible culture from newly incumbent management and wholesale change removing everything that used to be good about the company. Salaries below the market average for similar roles. Culture of hiring more staff than required and winnowing out the rest as fast as possible. Avoid like the plague.

1.0
Oct 28, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Bonus scheme (although never fully achievable due to ridiculous targets) Good paternity pay and length 5 volunteering days a year Salary is fairly competitive but on the slightly lower side Career progression is good if you can showcase good performance but has been limited in the last year due to cost cutting.

Cons

Top level management used to care and listen to employees and we felt valued, looked after and listened too. However over the last 2 years this has all changed (coincidentally with some change in the c suite team). The company has just had poor decision after another which staff have been vocal against with a stance of just take it or quit, It has destroyed morale and made overall productivity in the company lower (dont have metrics but would put money on it im that sure). The final straw that broke the camels back was the recent change from 2 days a week with flexibility in office to 3 days a week no flexibility. After Sage globally have cut desks in offices, parking etc these changes are pushing people into over crowded offices with no parking left and people don't understand why its being done. No one asked for this and when they announced it they said "they had listened to feedback about office days". Yet when people actually gave feedback after the announcement they refused to listen to any of it.

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Sage Response
1y
We appreciate your feedback and have read through your comments. Please note that our hybrid working approach is an important element of the way we work at Sage that is complemented by other benefits such as paid time to volunteer, the ability to work away for up to 10 weeks a year and free well-being support tools. More information about what we offer can be found here https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Benefits/Sage-United-Kingdom-Benefits-EI_IE1150.0,4_IL.5,19_IN2.htm - Thanks for taking the time to leave your review. We’ll continue to work hard to improve how we enable colleagues to thrive.
2.0
Mar 9, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There are still some hard working and customer focused people left and want to make a difference Intacct is still a top financial and accounting software solution

Cons

Intacct was a thriving and growing company with one of the smartest go to market strategies that I've seen. The leadership was strategic, customer focused and truly cared about employees. It had one of the best corporate cultures that I've ever worked in. Once Intacct was absorbed into Sage, everything changed in a complete 180 degrees. Decisions from leadership are made spontaneously without warning, reason or logic, and with very little or no communication. The Intacct culture of customer focus and business growth clashes with the Sage culture of just "checking boxes". I've watched top down decisions made without input or proper information that were detrimental to customers and the business overall. There's constant change for changes sake, and frequent layoffs. Discombulated people that are left are demoralized, especially those that came from the Intacct culture.

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Sage Response
3y
Thank you for sharing your feedback with us. Any company acquisition or merger can be unsettling for colleagues, as no two cultures are the same. We always endeavour to make the process as seamless as possible, and will continue to work to improve our integrations in the future. At Sage we are 100% committed to doing the right thing for our customers and want to ensure all our colleagues are set up to thrive in their career at Sage. We encourage feedback via many internal channels, as well as here on Glassdoor. Thank you for the many years you spent working at Sage and we wish you well in your future career.
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