SAP reviews

4.2

85% would recommend to a friend

(25,081 total reviews)
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Christian Klein

76% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

SAP has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 25,081 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The SAP employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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25K reviews
4.0
Feb 21, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

- Great colleagues - Good benefits (free food, vacation) - Company supports employee growth and offers training opportunities - Company supports work/life balance.

Cons

- Salaries are lower than in other companies in Bay Area. - SAP in-house tools/processes are very slow and overly complicated; It often takes a long time to accomplish a simple task. - Product management frequently makes decisions to change product positioning (for example, by rebranding). This doesn't add any value, only adds extra work. - SAP has trouble attracting best high tech workers

3.0
Feb 13, 2016

Transformation

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

employee centric, work-life balance, freedom, collaboration, free lunch, global bonus pool program, company brand name, smart people, global presence

Cons

politics, cross board area alignment is off, communication is weak, no transparency, too much game playing and empire building, many lifers whose skills are not relevant, young talents are not trained properly, inexperienced management, lack Silicon Valley culture (agile, can-do, win/win mindset, entrepreneurship, passion, set people up for success), frequent re-orgs cause low morale

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Thank you for taking the time to give a review. It is good to hear that you like working with smart people, the global presence, and the work-life balance. But, I am sorry that your experience at SAP has more cons than pros. That said, I am thankful that you took the time to share your opinion here so I and others who work on this can reflect on it and think about ways we can adapt and do more to ensure you and others feel valued, have more clear communications, set up better training, and minimize politics. From my personal experience, I feel confident that I was hired because of my skills. I was fortunate to have found a win/win for me professionally and personally. I like my leaders because they are smart, transparent, positive, and open to trying new things which motivates me. But I can understand with nearly 77,000 employees we have your situation and mine (the good and the bad). However, I just hope we have more of the good (don't we all?!!). Either case, the more we talk about it the better we can be. We can evaluate and improve. So, thank you again for providing a review and I can promise you that we will discuss this review and address an action plan. It might not change overnight, but I am hopeful we can make a change because of your feedback.
4.0
Jan 13, 2016

Turning the corner

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Flexible, innovative company that is just now turning the corner on understanding what they need to do to compete in a cloud centric world natively (instead of spending on big acquisitions to catchup). Big initiatives around Big Data, IOT, Analytics while continuing to serve the core and move to the cloud. Good leaders, good ethics and morale. Good culture of wanting to do great things collaboratively.

Cons

Fiefdoms create silos throughout board areas. Not always aligned between dev and sales. Need more focus on customer experience and disrupting markets more aggressively. People need to tell it like it is...too many yes folks at management level.

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