Sage Group Reviews

Pros

Good people to work with, good benefits

Cons

Your experience varies greatly by business unit and department

Advice to Senior Management

Stabilize the business as it grows, and don't homogenize everything just for the sake of uniformity.

Pros

In the Healthcare Division, if you personally network and reach out, the possibility exists to learn more over time. Otherwise your day can feel like a numbers game and I don't mean the kind in your paycheck.

Cons

Stretched way beyond capacity not only your position but continued company realignments & restructuring lead to delays in personal & business communications/actions. Be prepared to pave your own way on a career path outside of the company as promotions & individual recognition is extremely limited, outside of Sales.

Advice to Senior Management

Senior Management is just that...."Senior". Out of touch, persistent circulation of the same managers - just title changes. No movement of ideas generated by client-interfaced employees.

Pros

NIce group of people, good product

Cons

Overloaded organization, needs to be streamlined and cleaned up. There seems to be a lot of people that forgot how to think a bit openly, and this gets in the way of getting things done efficiently. Also, many positions now seem to be unnecessary and are perhaps leftovers from previous hiring crazes.

Advice to Senior Management

Think proactively and progressively. Stop making expensive changes for small customers with connections and think more efficiently for the good of the customer base and the overall product.

Pros

Overall Sage is a good company to work for. Offers an above average salary for this area of the UK. Sage is a friendly company. Lots of good people both technically and personally on the teams. There are good oportunities to work with up to date technologies. Sage also have a good approach to staff training and certification. Newcastle offices are relativly new with good facilities, e.g. canteen, gym, coffee shop etc.

Cons

Lots of office politics around some decisions. Each part of the Sage group and even the departments within one area pretty much work in isolation with very little sharing of effort.

Advice to Senior Management

Improvements should be made in group wide communications. More transparency of salary scales.

Pros

Its a listed company and global brand. The building is quite nice but the open office can be noisy and distracting when trying to concentrate on programming. Theres free parking buts is a long way from everything.

Cons

Progression opertunities are very limited. They dont pay very well and take advantage of their position in the north east where competition with other employers is favourable. They have behaved badly in recent years by not giving anual cost of living pay rises to people who were over the limit of a new banding pay scale they brought in. Treating people fairly didn't enter into it. Dont come here expecting to earn top money, you never will. Investment in traing and personel development within the technical teams is pityful. I've seen larger training budgets at much smaller companies. Sage ran a Denison survey to gage staff moral, after getting poor results for 2 years in a row it decided it would just run its own so they could 'ask the right questions', obviously the results are better now.

Advice to Senior Management

Fewer chiefs, more indians.