SAP Reviews

Pros

The best things are the diversity of employees, benefits (including a decent free lunch) and work location in Palo Alto.

Cons

Most of the non-technical opportunities are at other locations such as Newtown Square, PA or the headquarters in Waldorf Germany.

Advice to Senior Management

The work facilities are being designed to encourage employees to work at home. This seems to be contrary to the efforts to encourage onsite interaction.

Pros

worldwide company, new technology, intelligent people

Cons

bureaucratic, no promotion, self-centric management, plenty of corporate fat cats (middle management nothing doing)

Advice to Senior Management

Support and commit with the talent people when calling them, not just political speeches.
Faster hiring, promote the talented people.

Pros

Good benefits
Lots of internal career opportunities and opportunities to learn

Cons

Golden cage - you know you can advance much more in other places.
Very hard to get promoted...

Advice to Senior Management

Invest in your pepole.

Pros

fair pay and benefits, within the industry average though
looking good on your resume
good starting point in your career
training opportunities

Cons

talented management left or leaving b/c of low pay / slow promotion
"who cares" about customers / employees / morale
changing strategic directions every year, sometimes more often
turnover

Advice to Senior Management

management has to manage company for the shareholders, customers and employees - it seems that last two have been completely lost from the formula
support your teams, be strategic and pro-active
self-promotion is important but not the ultimate goal

Pros

From a Consulting perspective:
Lots of information on new products.
Access to developers, and development document, meaning possibility to get depth knowledge of new products.
Work-life balance is easier to find than in other consulting companies in Spain.
Benefits are better than average spanish companies.
International work environment.
Possibility to change dept and/or country are common.

Cons

From a Consulting perspective:
The main focus of SAP is sales. Therefore SAP consulting is sometimes left aside in terms of attention, development, etc.
Some contracts won by SAP are automatically transfered to partners due to the previous mentioned point and also to the high tariffs that SAP charges (out of market).

Advice to Senior Management

Take advantage of the people inside SAP Consulting.
They are well prepared, willing to work and they deserve one opportunity.

Pros

to learn the most robust business application solution.

Cons

corporate structure and managment is a challenge in a growing company.

Pros

Leading edge company, an extensive network, you get respect from others in the industry

Cons

travel (if you're consulting) and advancement opportunities

Pros

Lunch, smart people and global presence.

Cons

Bill and Jim are great! One level down not so much. The company is overrun by countless finance, controlling and corporate bureaucrats. Next to impossible to make progress. The CIO is on twitter all day long and pays no attention internally.

Advice to Senior Management

Get rid of the layers, clarify responsibilities - board members don't communicate and people do the same thing thinking each has the ball, IT is a huge mess - tell the CIO to do something of value for a change.

Pros

Woke and life balance, coworkers are very nice, free and not bad lunch, long time vocation, comfortable workplace, managers are good.

Cons

You can't expected promotions when you are doing good. Slow feedback from manages, coworkers are nice but not very smart. Salary is not very good compare to other companies.

Advice to Senior Management

Take the change and make it happen. Hear voice from your workers. Do not bury yourselves into meeting, go around and you can find more.

Pros

Good name on resume.
Free lunch and good cafeteria.
Good benefits.
Travel and conferences

Cons

Poor learning opprtunities
Short sighted company and very poor leadership
Too many camps - German Camp, Jewish Camp, Indian Camp

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to the best and brightest employees you hire and you wont have to snoop.