Sage Group Reviews

Pros

casual environment, talented people, good reputation, potential to grow within the company, solid products, fun activities outside of work, trusted senior management

Cons

Lots of overtime, spent a lot of time on waterfall methodologies - training people in this approach, many reorganizations, many projects shelved before completion

Advice to Senior Management

Never should have sold out. they had a good customer base and excellent market share, and the potential to grow on their own in a private setting.

Pros

Good benefits.
The company is working hard to reinvent itself.
New strategy has promise.
Work life balance encouraged.
Many good people work here.

Cons

Systems are terrible.
Policies and procedures make it hard to get stuff done.
Employees are not motivated to excel by compensation structure.
Too much change is introduced without enough planning.
Many employees are unhappy.
Management is overly political.

Advice to Senior Management

Too many employees are checked out.
Fix Atlas.

Pros

Co-workers are really nice, capable people. Products are good. Customers really need the types of products and services Sage Health provides.

Cons

Leadership cannot execute and do not have a strategy that aims towards 'winning'. Current management is coasting on previous successes. Employees lack incentives to excel.

Advice to Senior Management

Sage Healthcare needs executives who know their products and are accountable for their results

Pros

Sage pays a OK salary and has good benefits but since sales are poor you need to make sure the base and the benefits are good. Their benefits are decent and they start you at 3 weeks vacation per year. Also, you are rarely visited by senior VPs so you have capability and time to do your own thing or surf the net or get some mid-day work done if needed.

Cons

The manager and VP couldnt sell when they were in the biz so your confidence in some of their weirder proclamations is nil. The old VP was fired and the new-ish guy distracts everyone by appearing tough. Quite a bore, really. The resellers are dolts and unruly too.
In all fairness, you never see the management who probably figured they need to be busy 'networking' to keep their job.

Advice to Senior Management

keep hanging out with product management. Those guys are in your league. At least we have great marketing.

Pros

The benefits are average for this day and age and they give you a starting vacation allowance of 3 weeks.

Cons

Only buddies of the VP or senior VP get promoted. These people do not need to do any work, know anything or reply to email. Everyone else is expected to work hard and pick up for the slackers in product management. The company has no marketing.

Advice to Senior Management

Honestly, you are not qualified. Pick another industry.

Pros

OK benefits, prepare for micromanagement and marketing/product management incompetence (partly because they are more into themselves than have a background in their jobs).

Cons

Egotistical management, incompetent product management who lives in its own 1986 world and lack of respect for sales and downright hostility for those who unlike product management work. sales "managers" were failures in their own sales or never sold software so running around posing.

Advice to Senior Management

Go fishing?

Pros

Opportunities to grow if you are willing to put the time and effort into the work that you do.

Cons

In my area there are not enough people to do the work thoroughly and on time. Burnout and work life balance is a common problem.

Advice to Senior Management

Senior management is fairly new to the company and so far has made great strides in undoing all the wrong decisions that earlier management made. I have full confidence that they will lead us in turning into the company we want to be, the company that we should and can be. I know that it will take time and look forward to the changes to come.

Pros

Full-time employees start with 3-weeks paid vacation and full benefits from the first day of hire, plus 401k matching at 50%. The company as a whole wants to grow employees and structures personal growth plans around goals of employee. It's the largest of the small-to midsize business ERP software provider in the world.

Cons

It's software--so a lot of the programs have issues, it is frustrating to know you work in a place which has poor QA. The job overall is quite boring and full of meetings.

Advice to Senior Management

Do a better job of getting employees excited or even happy to work there--better communication and moral boosting.

Pros

Interesting technical challenges. There's always room to come up with creative ways for solving software problems.

Cons

Executive is too secretive. Way too many executives and middle managers sucking money out of the company without actually producing anything. The rank-and-file are the brain power of this business, this is a software company and the software comes from the heads of the workers, not the continually changing executive staff which just sucks money away from the people doing the actual work.

Advice to Senior Management

how about dropping your million dollar bonuses before going around firing the people who actually build the products you sell. Trim down on the executive staff and middle management. You could hire 2X the engineers you have now and produce much better products if the executive was cut down significantly. example: Why is it that there are more executives and middle managers in a striaght line from Paul walker down to me than the number of people in department actually producing the product? it costs more to manage our department than the cost of the people actually making the product. doesn't make any sense!

Pros

Interesting products to support, people to work with. The co is full of very smart people that worked with the various SW products that Sage bought. Once Sage bought though, top people were cut, product quality dropped and the fun stopped.

Cons

Lack of direction, too many acquisitions. The co has too many similar products and lots of confusion re: the main product for each georgraphic market. Money and time should be spent getting their act together.

Advice to Senior Management

Consolidate