Politics, Politics, Politics - Director SAP Employee Review

2.0
Mar 13, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Global recognized brand, huge customer base, large scale projects working at a global company that makes technology most major companies use

Cons

Politics and culture of an old legacy software company are rampant. Extremely slow moving. Lots of people with extremely long tenures (which is not common in the tech world) that have no other experience outside SAP and are so very set in their ways--very political and "clickish". Lots of unproductive employees they can't get rid of due to european employment laws. Will take a miracle for SAP to improve the outdated culture, red tape, and bureaucracy built over the last several decades at this company. They're a bleeding talent from some of the innovative companies they have acquired in the last few years.

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