Sabre Reviews

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lack motivation, process is not mature

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No investment in employee's growth and career plan

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No bad comments for the company

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no cons for this company

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A lot of leadership changes over the past 24 months and more ongoing. Sabre still operates as a holding company of airline software and is trying very hard to turn into a true tech company but industry and culture is holding it back.

Can be difficult to break into leadership roles as executives seem to prefer external candidates.

Many products are reliant on one subject matter expert or technology expert who built the product and that makes it difficult to work in an Agile environment, spin up new resources, innovate quickly, react to issues quickly, etc.

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Org structure is cumbersome with many levels which makes it difficult to make decisions quickly.

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You will drown in a sea of redundant systems & processes which are inconsistently implemented/enforced:

* 4 distinct communication solutions at one point, some official, others less so
* 5 systems/channels for every routine task/project “management”/time-tracking, including email, email with tables, emailed Excel spreadsheets, shared Excel spreadsheets (on a SharePoint system that is inaccessible remotely while connected to their own developer VPN/proxy config), a ticket system not designed/configured for software development, poorly-managed time tracking solution that occasionally doesn’t have your project codes (also inaccessible remotely while connected to VPN/proxy necessary for conducting development tasks, but even as a full-time salaried employee you will be expected to log 8 hours of something every day regardless; you know how on Lost they had to enter numbers on a computer for no apparent reason or bad things would happen? Same thing.)

Testing/QA/UAT is probably the sales & support people. But that weekly release still better be immaculate or there’ll be hell to pay if an “emergency” release is necessary.

The signal-to-noise level is incredibly bad:

* meetings and events could easily absorb a significant portion of your week if you let them

Offshore contractors who can vary wildly in technical proficiency, English fluency, and internet connection quality, and who can appear on your team with little to no warning then disappear just as suddenly with their tasks/code left incomplete and no replacement resource in sight. You will be directly and actively made to feel guilty about them having meetings late at into their night even though the company headquartered in Texas is the one who hired them and put you on a team with them with no resources to accomplish asynchronous collaboration.

Base pay is mediocre. Benefits are just adequate though expensive for such a large employer.

Churn (departures/shuffling) at the higher levels is nearly constant, resulting in a lack of consistent, coherent vision being maintained, leading to sense of instability, discontinuity, and a compensatory discontent among the rank & file.

If you have any shred of self-worth, you will become demoralized and possibly even be railroaded out. I watched it happen then experienced it firsthand.

The Sabre “values” drum is beat hard and often, but the only thing that is demonstrably valued is unquestioning compliance.

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Uncommunicative and ambiguous leadership (VP+ levels); inept at managing through change or transition.
Trust issues across the company; without good communication from leadership, employees result to isolation to protect themselves.
Complete absence of robust training & development funding or programs. No new manager training or culture of coaching.
Lack of growth opportunities; Sabre continues to reduced leadership roles/levels, increase spans, reduced rewards opportunities, etc.
Varies role-to-role, but the majority of employees struggle greatly with work-life balance due to the global footprint & inefficient organizational culture of Sabre.
Inevitable turnover of the best talent.

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Lots of red tape for development (can be a slow process), they like to talk about innovation and everyone doing their part, but there's hardly ever any money for it.

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Too many processes and beauraucracy