Some good, lots bad - Anonymous employee Sage Employee Review

2.0
Oct 31, 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- worked with some amazing colleagues across the company - many people truly care about the products we create - great volunteering opportunities - we have customers who value our products - customer interviews allow us to assess our customers real needs and wants

Cons

- senior leadership team have purposefully antagonised staff - working from office 3 days a week imposed from Jan 2025 for everyone on an office working contract, whilst most of the top leadership are on remote contracts ,and thus, completely unaffected - working from office mandate seems to be a smokescreen for reducing headcount without having to go through the proper processes - lots and lots of nepotism within the company, especially from people with more senior roles hiring their children into Sage - lots of teams working on the same or similar projects, in an uncoordinated way - AI features being pushed without first assessing the cost of implementation and real value to the customer - many basic UI improvements sidelined to push in AI features - lots of wishy washy projects happen for marketing purposes - where colleagues grow a lot and their responsibilities expanded significantly, compensation not increased - internal and external role names are different, which makes any gender pay analysis invalid - senior colleagues almost all from one demographic - more expensive colleagues who leave are replaced with early careers people to save money which means remaining colleagues expected to take up more responsibility and also teach for the same pay - leadership talks to outside world not aligned with what is really happening on the ground

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Sage Response
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We are thankful for your feedback. In response to some of your concerns, please read on. We're working hard to streamline our business operations further, but these things take time. Hybrid working is core to strengthening our human-centric culture, in which the well-being of our colleagues is at the centre. Therefore, we've committed ourselves to supporting colleagues with unique circumstances so that they can adhere to the updated working policy. Our recruitment practices are robust and fairly run. Candidates are only ever successful based on their capability and achievement. From a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion standpoint, we acknowledge that more work must be done to ensure we have a substantial representation of people from varied backgrounds amongst our leadership teams. To achieve our goals, we've set ambitious targets for ourselves that we are working toward. You can read more about this and our overall commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion here - https://www.sage.com/en-gb/company/careers/diversity-equity-and-inclusion/ Thank you again for raising your concerns here. Please connect with your manager on the same. We appreciate that, like any company, there's a lot of room for us to improve, so your concerns have been noted to ensure we can continue doing so correctly.

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