Sage Senior Software Developer reviews

3.4

56% would recommend to a friend

(85 total reviews)
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Steve Hare

64% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

Senior Software Developer employees have rated Sage with 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 85 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Senior Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Sage is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Senior Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.7 stars).

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85 reviews
4.0
Nov 20, 2023

Working at SAGE

Recommend
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Pros

It was great to work at SAGE (4 days of remote work, great team members...)

Cons

Huge products not very well architectured

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Sage Response
2y
We are glad to know that you had a good experience during your time with us and have taken note of your concerns to help us improve our product offerings. We wish you all the best in your career moving forward!
3.0
Nov 6, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Working from office min two days a week, can work from outside Ireland for 10 weeks a year, five days per year for self development and learning, working hours per day are seven hours.

Cons

No clear career path and no clear requirements defined for each level. No clear criteria for promotions and very small number of people promoted each year, mostly at the lower end. Salaries below average.

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Sage Response
2y
Thank you for taking the time to leave your review. We are glad that there are several aspects of Sage you find delight in but we are also sorry that your experience, in general, has not been more positive. We'd like to encourage you to explore our Talent Marketplace resource as there are several development opportunities within it and you can create a desired career path and get guidance on what steps you need to take for each level of growth until you get to where you'd want to be. Please reach out to us internally should you have any questions or concerns and we'd be very happy to support you. Please continue sharing your feedback with us, both here and on our Pulse surveys so that we can keep knocking down barriers for you to thrive!
1.0
Oct 19, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

There's some great people, we were treated like human beings during lock-down, the salaries are pretty good, benefits are similar to the rest of the industry.

Cons

"Team agreements" - like most other people on here, our "team agreement" has been imposed on us and wasn't agreed or discussed with the team at all. Not a single person on my team actually agrees with the agreement. I have complained to my manager and have also escalated it, but nothing is done. Please stop lying in your responses here and pretending like anyone in the team actually has any say over what's in the team agreement. My whole team is based over three continents and there is no point in me going into the office, except to be frustrated with the noise and interruptions. Everyone just goes into the office to sit on MS Teams calls anyway. This isn't about "human connection", people tend to stick to themselves or just sit with headsets on. I would rather meet my team in person more often, than be forced to go and sit in an office on MS Teams calls. This company also has a bit of a revolving door with people. They keep laying off people while also having hundreds of vacancies open. You are not a human in this company, but a fully replaceable part. Nobody will look after you or care for you, once they are done, they will just spit you out and replace you. This is a repeating thing and one day someone is there and the next they have just been replaced with someone else. It's the opposite to treating people like humans. Stop saying this is a value just for optics and actually start showing people that you care (like you did during lockdown).

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Sage Response
2y
We appreciate you taking the time to leave your review and we are very sorry to read that you did not feel like we were living up to our Human value. We really value our colleagues and would never want them to ever feel replaceable or like they don't matter to us. The team agreements that are in place are to encourage colleagues to come together and collaborate both with their teams and cross functionally. We take your point that there are times diaries are stacked with Teams calls but we are empowering our colleagues to be Bold and to find opportunities for in-person meetings so that days in the office are spent connecting face to face. That might not always be possible and there could be times when there are crucial meetings that require input from teams that, at that moment, can only connect online but this is not all the time. For our hybrid working framework to work as intended, we need our colleagues to come together because we truly believe that great things happen when that human connection is in force. The layoffs we had caused us to lose incredible people and the decisions around them were not taken lightly because of this outcome. It was very hard for us to see people go but in order for us to remain committed to effectively delivering on the promises we make to our stakeholders, we needed to change the structure of how we operated in certain areas of the business. We are sad that you felt you needed to leave Sage but we wish you all the best for the future and should our paths cross again someday, we hope to make you proud to be part of us!
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