SAP Concur reviews

It really depends in which team you work. You just have to be lucky. As in every corporation, it happens that incompetent people are hired and promoted. This is the situation of the Prague Travel team. Once people got promoted to leadership positions (thanks to their seniority in the team), they couldn't be "depromoted". Even though they were proving for more than a year they are just not good for their position. And such people of course promote another incompetent people, so they have their "fan base" that never opposes them. Anybody else that stands out, speaks up, is overproductive or more logical than leaders (the last one is not really a problem) is persecuted. Once you show that you have more experience than your leaders (which is again not really a problem) you are suddenly not wanted. They will often not listen to your ideas or advice, and if they do, they present your ideas as theirs. The philosophy of this team's leaders is to hire very mediocre, average people who just do what they are told to do. That's bad news for people that actually have some brain and maybe even stand out a bit. A good manager/team leader should learn how to work with various people, rather than sending them to HR in order to change their behavior. In addition, how can you be a team leader/manager in this age without knowing basic Excel skills or how to write one email without misspelling and grammar mistakes? The leadership of Prague Travel team is an embarassment for the whole company. Even though this opinion may have not traveled yet to concerned US management, this sure is a known fact in Prague office. Nobody wants to join this team and they all know why. So in summary, Concur is a good place to work, but if you have a bad luck and end up in team with incompetent and stubborn leadership that lacks logical thinking, it will negatively affect your opinion about this company. This is a perfect example of saying "people don't leave the job, they leave their managers".

Development Majority of code being developed in obsolete ASP vbscript copy&paste way Insane abuse of technologies - only right use of C# is by latest fashion putting everything in app_code and untyped variables Innovation - movement to C# MVC3 (yes, not MVC4) being pretty much copy paste of ASP code to C# reintroducing same spaghetti issues, lack of 5 minutes thinking before coding and even making things worse Software architects - absent, those supplying their function have poor knowledge of language and zero knowledge about architecture Controlled by technically challenged - many development senior managers/directors have development skills of underperforming student of first year tech university degree (lack of knowledge of data types, elementary problems of combinatorics, uniqueness, no clue about paralellism, difference between application and business logic etc. etc.) Database - No normal forms, decomposition, proper use of relations, indexing, primary keys. It's big, it's slow and 99% redundant. Attribute names (columns) don't reflect in what's stored in them often. Design patterns - according to dev directors useless Reinventing the wheel - frequent, though Concur wheel is more a triangle. Coding standards - absent, and fixing code structure is forbidden. Thousands lines methods, hungarian notation, spaghetti code, lots of classes in one cs file, public static everything Documentation - non-existant, some laughable bits in one-note Common sense - lots of problems can be properly solved with common sense... correctly. In this Concur forces anti-common sense Features, features - features are always more important than bugfixes Zero support for reasonable (read any) automated testing (or well, any sense making testing) Resulting web pages are completely invalid - violating HTML rules, terrible accessibility (table inside table inside table inside table), css styles often hardcoded in element style attribute instead of css file. In fact it's close to miracle browsers are able to render Concur output in quirk mode. You are not allowed to point out problems. No matter how careful you are with your tone you always insult some technically challenged superior because you point out severe problems in his hacks (concur doesn't develop, concur hacks). Corporate You kill your career if you were good enough to pass first year in tech university, if you failed it it's place for you. Extreme ammount of favorism, promoting good shoe kissers and those who sit in the company for longer time... regardless if they are underskilled enough not to pass trial period anywhere else. If you work hard you are ignored, don't expect any promotions unless you keep kissing the right shoes. Recruiting They lie you big time, claiming they use modern technologies etc. Well, if ASP vbscript is considered modern, then they speak the truth.