Pros
Great benefits, competitive remuneration, plenty of learning opportunities, and generous rewards and recognition scheme
Cons
Products are released before they are ready, with far too many defects. Product management is not good at listening to feedback from the field on what improvements are needed. Struggling to make the transition to the cloud - the SAS Viya platform is still not cloud native after promising this when the platform was released 3 years ago. Strategy to counter the rise of open source analytics does not appear to be working as most data scientists under the age of 40 have no interest in using SAS and would rather stick to Python, R, Spark, etc. or vendor tools that sit on top of them. Very poor services capability to help customers achieve business outcomes on the products - professional services is predominantly focused on installing, configuring and walking away. Key capability areas that SAS was once well regarded in (data management and BI) have been under-invested in to the point where the organisation appears to have literally given up competing.