SAP Reviews

Pros

Strong managent and a solid product suite. Good benefits and competitive salary

Cons

very political environemnt makes it difficult to move your career forward

Advice to Senior Management

look at people for what they can do now who they know

Pros

Exciting pace of change
Great employee benefits
Opportunity for some international travel

Cons

Technology platforms for products are not cutting edge
Culture is slow to change
Requires a lot of coordination with team members in other countries

Advice to Senior Management

Provide clearer vision beyond Business Suite. As enterprise apps move to the cloud, everyone in the ecosystem needs to understand exactly what the future holds for their SAP applications and what they will be buying/running in the future.

Pros

Colleagues are very friendly and eager to help
Free lunch and free cofee/tea is a good benefit
Never had the feeling to have someone breathing down my neck
Very nice e-learning material for those who want to use it

Cons

As all companies now they want you to have years of experience whatever the position you're applying to might be.

Advice to Senior Management

Management seems good enough to me. Although it seems that from a certain level of responsabilities speaking German becomes a requirement. Fair enough for a German company but makes you think you cannot make it to the top even if you're qualified.

Pros

Products,vision understanding of value and vertical solutions

Cons

Complexity in organization and matrix management

Pros

- Genuine care & respect for people, no hire & fire mentality. Good benefits although less than they used to be. Employees can speak their mind openly (thanks to our German friends I guess)
- Highly diverse and talented workforce. People from all over the world, probably more Europeans than your typical SV company account for a rich cultural experience.
- Lots of new exciting products and technologies
- Opportunities for lateral moves once you've proven yourself and built your network.

Cons

- Center of gravity is in Germany, lots of things have to go though the HQ. Sites / product units are not independent enough which hiders agility.
- Turf wars and kingdoms result in an inability to re-distribute resources adequately and dead branches sticking around for a while.
- Complex to navigate and lots of dependencies between groups can slow you down

Advice to Senior Management

Very good moves lately, keep going. Keep up with the people-centric agenda. Try to work on less politics and a more de-centralized model.

Pros

Senior Leadership team has sound strategies for growth
Compensation for Sr Account Executives is above average
Facilities provide a comfortable work environment

Cons

Middle management struggles with execution and is often in their position based on tenure as opposed to expertise
With growth comes changes that can make it challenging for sales continuity

Advice to Senior Management

Continue with your innovation strategy and with a value offering to market SAP will continue to grow! Your people are your biggest asset - don't undervalue your front-line employees.

Pros

Flexible and employee friendly ambience.

Cons

Difficult to make changes. Go with the flow.

Pros

Good networking relationship can be established

Cons

No career path; no work life balance

Advice to Senior Management

Provde a career path and consider work life balance

Pros

SAP Brand Name, a few SAP values transcend down to GD
Short term projects with high value customers

Cons

Body shopping rampant, managers more worried about billing and not about quality of projects
Senior management not competent

Pros

Solid company, safe, increasing sales despite economy, generous benefits, mutlinational experience, possibility for broad exposure to all kinds of technologies and product domains.

Cons

All decisions seem to be centralized in Walldorf and to a lesser extent Palo Alto. Product teams in satellite offices are rarely considered. Management team changes (departures or changing to other depts) constantly.