SAP America Reviews

Pros

There are no pros other than my co-workers were great bunch of people to work with.

Cons

Extremely dirty office politics
Management doesn't have the courage to face the employees in person so they ask the recruiting company to do their dirty job of letting us know due to budget cut, we don't have to go in tomorrow. No warning, no word, nothing.

Advice to Senior Management

The worst leadership I've had to endure. Give up dirty politics and appreciate loyalty and hard work of their employees. Should give enough time to look for another job when they decide they don't need employee services anymore.

Pros

Can make great commission (sales). Company does not cheap out on its investments including training and conferences etc. The company is currently in a major push for growth & innovation which is exciting from sales front - new technology and value to bring customer's make conversation more colorful.

Cons

Like most large corporations, inconsistencies in how persons are selected for career advancement can have negative connotations. Roll-out of internal programs / changes to process lacks execution and over-sight from the persons the changes actually affect [creating less efficiency and negative morale in many instances] when initial drivers came from good intentions.

Advice to Senior Management

Before you go ahead and make a major change in process, you should probably ask the sales people or persons the change affects for their feedback to avoid multiple negative reactions.

Pros

Lots of friendly and competent people to work with
There are some interesting technical problems to solve (if you can get on one of those projects)
The benefits are good.

Cons

Poor/hostile relations between teams on separate sites
Too much reinventing the wheel - groups have no idea what tools, libraries, functionality have already been written in house
Long process for using OSS (GPL not allowed) in projects
Management does whatever it thinks best without asking employees
Management is trying to do more with less employees and work-life balance suffers
Management jerks teams around. They give you a project then transfer it away then assign another and then transfer it away. That does wonders for morale.
Everything moves very slowly. Adoption of new technology and methodology is years behind.

Advice to Senior Management

Get the engineering org to catalog existing functionality. It isn't good when a group is OEMing a competitors solution when there is an in house one they don't even know exists.
Address morale problems
Move organization toward quicker technology adoption and allow time for employee innovation.

Pros

- good training programs
- excellent benefits
- opportunity to make a lot of money
- excellent retirement plan
- lots of resources to support your efforts

Cons

- a disfunctional, extremely hierarchal environment
- many levels of management who are getting paid to perform administrative tasks and adding no value to improving customer experience or improving SAP sales
- management has no desire to listen to the highly experienced employees they are willing to hire; dictates come down from above....often with no regard for the reality on the street and reality of SAP's own organization and limitations.
- I believe SAP is far down its lifecycle curve; it will collapse from its own weight and inabiity to be agile enough in an enviroment that demands flexibility and insight. Best days are behind SAP

Advice to Senior Management

Line up all the employees, count off by 3s, fire all the #2s. Then reorganize the company with the remaining 67% of the employees. Stop rewarding style over substance....demand excellence, not administrative excellence, but excellence in customer-focus

Pros

It is great for employee satisfaction

Cons

The Compensation is lower compared to other industries

Pros

Fast-paced, good learning experience, smart people, impressive and inspirational top management, global interaction, always something new, lots of daily interaction with people because of cafeteria, cafe, and open-office design, given lots of responsibility, great food in cafeteria, pretty setting for campus, fitness center, formal performance evaluation system.

Cons

Supervisors too busy to really know what you are accomplishing or your true work load, too many emails, workload requires long hours, far from other business centers with amenities like restaurants and stores.

Pros

excellent benefits and career potential

Cons

If you usually go along to get along and thrive in an environment where mediocrity is rewarded, then this is the place for you.

If you are a creative "A" player, who is willing to push the boundaries and try new things, expect to be stifled and frustrated. You may encounter some great people and management, but the good ones are smart enough to get out when a better opportunity comes along.

Pros

Great benefits
Flexible work location(work from home available)
Lots of internal opportunities(lateral moves)

Cons

Promotions are difficult, especially for woman
Hard to connect with coworkers because of dispersed workforce
Spend too much time on internal lobbying

Advice to Senior Management

Reward performance for non-sales positions too
Management has constant changes which result in reorganizations that drain employee resources

Pros

Very good life-work balance in the company. Formalized corporate structure. Smart and nice people.

Cons

Sales driven company. Negative impact on communications and processing due to hiarachery

Advice to Senior Management

More internal net working opportunities for new hires

Pros

Great talent within the company, wide variety of opportunities (lateral), everyone is there is help

Cons

Difficult to get promoted, decisions are changed constnantly, management will put the company before your personal decisions

Advice to Senior Management

Need to solidify decisions about employees career before promising them anything and then changing it several times