SAP reviews

Global Management decisions have been affecting the moral and quality of work by moving jobs overseas and eliminating jobs in the USA. Their mindset is "cost savings" and "run simple". The past 4 years has been hit the hardest with layoffs across all areas of the company. This is the biggest disappointment for someone like me who has been committed for 9 years and was recently notified their job was eliminated.

- Run by Executive Board that generally disagrees on everything or seems to actively avoid making decisions - A select few -- very few -- employees are given the lion's share of new and exciting opportunities - Horrible at promoting women and initiatives to improve the representation of women have token executive support - Everything is done by committee, so anything delivered is watered down and not compelling - Most people spend their day in endless meetings to "align" with several other groups doing essentially the same thing - Many people will join your committee to work on a cool project, but only 5% of them will actually do any work - Works Council in Germany -- essentially a union -- advocates for German employees and has approval authority over promotions, re-orgs, etc. Employees in other countries have no such leverage - American employees will work long hours, European employees generally will not take a meeting after 4p in their timezone and think nothing of asking the Americans to attend meetings at 5a or 6a in the US - Management will bicker over spending $50K on something while wasting Millions on projects that are going no where - Love/hate relationship with Silicon Valley - Will hire you to do a job that you soon discover is actually already done by 3-4 other people in the org - Employees -- even relatively senior managers -- have very little decision-making authority and are actively discouraged from making decisions