SAS reviews

4.0

75% would recommend to a friend

(3,102 total reviews)
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Jim Goodnight

81% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

SAS has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 3,102 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The SAS 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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2.0
Feb 20, 2022

Company that kills Ambition

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Pros

Beautiful campus, and activities if your based in Cary NC.

Cons

1. HR is out of touch with employees 2. Senior/Mid level management do not lead nor can they make a decision. 4. Absolutely no career growth. 5. Bonus and pay Raises are not based on your personal performance and are completed prior to a joke of annual review process. 6. Product Management team lacks vision and industry best practices knowledge

2.0
May 15, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

- If you only look at the structure below executive level in the sales organization, they have fantastic leadership. - I cannot emphasize this enough... the sales management is top notch. They know the job, they are strategic, they know how to coach, they are fantastic in every way a manager can be fantastic - The work/life balance is everything you hear about. - The food is incredible. - The schedule is easy, and there is very little pressure to actually work if that is your style. - The underlying product used to be great 10 years ago so it has a lot of name recognition.

Cons

- Product is dated which poses problems since company dumps tons of money into R&D that is never realized. - Sales is shown little to no respect from the rest of the organization - Sales process has been hijacked by a bloated bureaucracy and takes forever - Half of your sales cycle is convincing internal resources to work with you - Comp plans are a mess. You actually get paid commission fewer months than you don't... - Tech support is the worst I've ever seen in the industry. Most of your role in sales is apologizing for the way your customers are treated by tech support. - Base pay is WAY below market pay... they claim its somewhere in the benefits package, and maybe that was true about 6-7 years ago... but it is a slap in the face by current standards.

2.0
Apr 5, 2017

Disappointed in my experience at SAS

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great campus and cafeterias, reasonable priced, lots of on-site facilities. If you are an under-performer you tend to be able to stick around for a while, I often found myself waiting to get deliverables accomplished because peers or other groups were out for a a couple of their 25 days a year vacation. While a great majority of corporate campus is riddled with under achievers, there are super nice people that will work as hard as they know how to help you on board.

Cons

Was unaware of their culture in the industry prior to joining and the mass exodus of 2016 did not leave many customers in a purchasing position. If I were to give any advice, I would say that after you join, learn as much as possible and then start to look for an exit strategy, over-achievers don't last long. Engineering staff is friendly and fun to work with, but if you come from a high energy high potential firm, you have to babysit them to get what you need.

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