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      Sage

      Engaged Employer

      Sage reviews

      3.5

      63% would recommend to a friend

      (5,261 total reviews)
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      Steve Hare

      70% approve of CEO

      60% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.9

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.7

      Compensation and benefits

      3.6

      Work/Life balance

      3.5

      Culture & values

      3.4

      Career opportunities

      3.2

      Senior management

      Sage has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 5,261 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Sage employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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      5K reviews
      1.0
      Mar 19, 2016

      I am Sage....

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Sage has good employees who genuinely care about customers. However, many of them have left or are on their way out. The company provides average salaries and benefits. Nothing to get excited about but at least they offer something.

      Cons

      I am Sage. I am a mediocre business software company with no real direction other than "reorganization". I am Sage. I punish employees who attempt to innovate and only allow creativity if one of the upper management staff comes up with an idea (i.e. steals it from subordinate employee and takes credit for it). I am Sage. I treat my employees as disposable resources. No one is valuable and I show no loyalty to them unless I need something. I am Sage. I believe the number of tweets my executives send will make us more successful in the US market rather than producing functional technology that customers want to buy. Please follow us. I am Sage. I will take away employee bonuses and terminate employees until our financials look good on the books and then turn a blind eye to how we have destroyed the internal structure and morale of our company. Don't ask how we are going to meet our numbers next year. I am Sage. I believe the closeness of the Atlanta airport is an amenity for my employees. (Yes I think staff truly believes that). Potential employees, take some time to sort the reviews on this site by Date and not Popular at the top right hand side of the first page. You will see this company's ratings are in a nosedive and have been for a while. Sage recognizes this and is in a panic which is demonstrated by their "planting" of reviews by upper management and Human Resources on this site. Any time you see terms/ phrases like "onboarding process" "being a change agent" or "Sound Leadership" make note these reviews are planted to combat the truthful reviews from employees. This behavior is an exact example of how their management strategy has gone wrong. They feel the need to spend more time spreading misleading information on this site to cover up real problems than improving on what's wrong in the daily workings of the company. This is not surprising because after some reflection on some of the most recent reviews Sage would have to admit that the root of most of their problems is a stagnant and ineffective leadership team who make bad decisions and have an inability to manage and motivate their teams.

      1.0
      Jul 18, 2018

      Support Services

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      Pros

      The perks have all been cut for five years. There is nothing great about working here.

      Cons

      Disconnected management on all levels. No pay increases as there has been hiring and promotion freezes for years. All perks and bonuses have been severed. The work load is incredibly outrageous.

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      7y
      Thanks for your feedback. Reading that you've experienced cuts in perks for five years surprises me. It's not something Sage does. Please contact me to give me more details and I will look into this - lynne.ellis-parker@sage.com We don't have a hiring freeze and never had. In fact, we have over 450 live jobs available now. All we are doing - which is quite right and prudent, is reviewing in more detail all the job requests. There's also not been any promotional freezes - 25% of all jobs globally are filled by internal colleagues, and in North America this figure is 27%. Also, bonuses have not been severed, many colleagues have received bonus/discretionary payments and pay rises over the last two years. We also receive lots of positive feedback, internally and externally about a good work life balance. If you feel you feel yo are not achieving this, talk to your manager and work together on solutions.
      1.0
      Aug 9, 2018

      Great people dealing with a management problem

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      The people in the front lines are unbelieveable. Hard working, kind, a lot of fun.

      Cons

      A legacy of poor leaders making costly poor decisions and the people in the front lines receive the impact. Layoffs happen multiple times per year and nothing ever feels stable. They also do these layoffs in a hugely inhumane way and severance is terrible (since they have to pay 6 months severance in UKI, they screw the US employees because they can). The leadership paints a rosy picture to your face but it’s not reality and they continue to make poor decisions because a) they’re unaware and choose to be, b) they’re unconcerned, c) they care more about personal perception and controlling a message than they do about really fixing a tough problem. They make their decisions based on pure numbers without education around what drives them, causing a lot of customer dissatisfaction (except for the super expensive, cheesy Xmas party where they gave us 2 drink tickets but spent all sorts of money on a huge, empty venue). Also the business silos are incredibly strong, so people make processes in a vacuum and do not care the impact it has on other teams. If the ultimate goal is revenue generation, there’s a complete misalignment across all the teams on this. Processes are inefficient, leaders argue constantly, and nothing gets improved towards driving that revenue goal. 100% budget cuts to the point where you can’t even do a very infrequent team lunch to try to thank people for their hard work. Morale is so low across the organization and no one is really accepting this or taking action to fix it. Beware!

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