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Bill McDermott & Jim Hagemann Snabe
Current Employee – been working at SAP full-time for more than 10 years
Pros – Great product line. Outstanding installed base of world-class companies across many industries. Politics are minimal (at least in the field organization) and there are few barriers to internal transfers. Field sales/service organizations have a strong "virtual" culture, and many SAP employees live in cities where there is no local SAP office.
Cons – Few opportunities for candidates without prior SAP experience. Recent turnover in executive leadership in North America is a concern. Little commitment to success of the consulting organization; at a fundamental level, SAP doesn't "get" professional services the way a Deloitte or Accenture gets it. Consulting business is not growing, and management opportunities are limited. Complexity of product line can be mind-numbing, even for current employees.
Advice to Senior Management – Define and execute a strategy for ensuring your Consulting business is focused on making customers successful, not just being a revenue source.
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company
2013-05-13 15:58 PDT
Former Employee – worked at SAP full-time for more than 7 years
Pros – Close to the technology, easy to pick up on the latest SAP technology, good people
Cons – Travel, bonus structure, sales people look out for themselves
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company
2013-05-10 07:51 PDT
Current Employee – been working at SAP full-time for more than 10 years
Pros – Salary, benefits. I have to manage my own time and activities. As a consultant, I work with a wide range of people on a temporary basis.
Cons – Sometimes dysfunctional. Redundent departments. Management doesn't talk to employees enough.
Advice to Senior Management – Get input before you make your decisions.
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company
2013-05-10 07:54 PDT
1 person found this helpful
Current Employee – been working at SAP full-time for more than 10 years
Pros – Great company vision and mission: To create a best-run world, by helping our customers become best-run businesses and to improve the lives of others. Transforming the way people think about enterprise software companies.
Cons – Re-organizations never stop. Poor longer-term planning in some business units (e.g. planning for year is completed by end of Q1 of that year).
Advice to Senior Management – Focus beyond just the next quarter.
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company
2013-04-23 07:46 PDT
Former Employee – worked at SAP full-time for more than a year
Pros – good bonus, good benefits, good for resume
Cons – traveling, lack of training due to budget cuts, North America bonus system compare to the Global services
Advice to Senior Management – change the north america bonus system so that the consultants are not hurt for taking vacations. Provide more training for the personnel so that they can change career directions if they need to. Lower the rates so that SAP can compete with smaller companies and those that provide off-shore services in order to be able to acquire more projects and raise consultants' utilization.
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company
2013-04-25 16:17 PDT
Current Employee – been working at SAP
Pros – save and nice place to work
Cons – working environment cannot compete with Apple or Google
2013-04-26 17:06 PDT
Current Employee – been working at SAP full-time for more than 10 years
Pros – You always have the possibility to learn something new and move forward in your career at SAP.
Cons – Must be willing to travel 100% to fully succeed.
Advice to Senior Management – Although the SAP landscape has changed dramatically over the past five years, my suggestion is to work faster to address employee feedback concerns.
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company
2013-04-27 13:06 PDT
Current Employee – been working at SAP full-time for more than 8 years
Pros – Excellent work experience, great work environment, great benefits, great tools to work and a lot of perks
Cons – Bureaucracy of processes make it sometimes difficult to get certain things done
Advice to Senior Management – More lean processes in diverse areas will make it more effective.
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company
2013-04-24 11:13 PDT
2 people found this helpful
Current Employee – been working at SAP full-time
Pros – Company reputation
A great resume builder
Strong teams
Cons – Poor management can make for difficult experiences
2013-05-03 17:56 PDT
2 people found this helpful
Current Employee – been working at SAP full-time
Pros – If you're in a sales position, and don't get your commissions, I can't think of any.
The worker bees are nice. But those who have no power can't create change.
Good name on the resume. Will be sure to draw attention.
Cons – Lots of promises made and ra ra by senior management. They don't follow through though. Mgmt says they want feedback, but don't mean it.
Very low morale by people in most groups.... No training or development... Learn on your own, b/c you won't get it here.
They are an old brick and mortar company where most of revenue comes from on premise solutions...
Advice to Senior Management – Be honest during your interviews, keep your promises and pay commissions.... Avoid the lip service that you are actually in the employees corner and going to try and help them... That ship has sailed.
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend
2013-05-05 14:47 PDT
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