SAP UK Reviews

Pros

SAP are on a roll with innovative, game-changing new products being launched and in the pipeline. If you're passionate about software it's very hard to beat.
Highly competitive pay and excellent (flexible) benefits, including up to 36 days holiday a year!
Open, friendly culture.
Generally good respect for the idea of work/life balance, with a European, rather than American, culture.
Good opportunities for taking training and personal development.
Free lunches and a great canteen!

Cons

Although personal development and career progression is very much encouraged, there's little formal structure around it. If you're happy to get on with the job you're in there's no pressure to move upwards which is great. But if you're talented and ready to move on in the company, then it's very much down to you to make that happen, and often relies on who-knows-who. I'd like to see more opportunities for high potentials to get exposure and experience in different areas of the business.
Benefits and expense limits with fixed values, such as car allowance, perhaps used to be generous but haven't been revised since they were introduced.
Can be a fair bit of bureaucracy from numerous layers of management. There seems to be a great desire to impose the same processes and structures on all countries across EMEA, regardless of what might work best in a local context.
Office environment (Clockhouse Place) is pleasant but somewhat dated - you'll often find better elsewhere. Office location is nowhere near any shops or amenities, and is difficult to reach on public transport.

Advice to Senior Management

I think SAP UK is a great place to work - but it could be even better. If employees are doing a great job and working hard, and the company's making good money, then I'd like to see then company looking after its people a bit more by providing a first-rate environment, whether in the office or when we're travelling and working with customers.

Pros

Benefits and the people there

Cons

The speed at which you progress is slow even for top performers

Advice to Senior Management

Get employees involved in more projects away from their field

Pros

People are great, very good atmosphere. Everyone is willing to help,good collaboration between various international subsidiaries. Managers care about life/work balance, taking time off is never a problem. Work, for the most part, is engaging and interesting.

Cons

Very hard to get promoted; lots of internal politics. HR seems to be incompetent in some areas.

Advice to Senior Management

N/A

Pros

Quality of people overall are good. Good benefit package. Working with some really professional colleagues and lots of mutual respect.

Cons

Limited carreer groth in the Field Services Division within the UK. The top management are forced to deliver the raw numbers to SAP AG which can cause suboptimal effects on the employees ability to execute and limit personal growth.

Advice to Senior Management

UK top management must have a strategic view on where they want to take the employees into the future and not just focus on the next 3 to 6 months results.

Pros

food coffee people job security

Cons

Bosses bosses promotion style KPI

Advice to Senior Management

listen to people

Pros

big international team
large scale projects
good social benefits
stable company

Cons

burecracy on all levels
low level of transperancy
unneccessary complexity even for simple things
difficult to introduce changes
development teams disconnected from real customer needs
your contribution to the organization almost not visible

Advice to Senior Management

bring down the level of burecarcy, let the correct people take the desicions and do less politics, allow more 'Just do it' attitute, have more people from development on customer sites

Pros

Good colleagues, good reputation in the marketplace, great to have on your CV

Cons

Car parking and now having to pay for the coffee if you get it from the cafe

Advice to Senior Management

Lead by example

Pros

Great lunches, good but diminishing brand, huge customer base that the snr mgt wanst to shaft and exploit all of the time.

Company cannot handle the down turn and totally dishonest with both employees and customers

Cons

Very poor Snr Mgt - dishonest, lack of integrity. Software not being delivere don time and to good quality.

Advice to Senior Management

Resign