SAP reviews

4.2

85% would recommend to a friend

(25,057 total reviews)
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76% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

SAP has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 25,057 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 Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
Apr 13, 2012

I dread going to work!

Anonymous employee
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Pros

It's a job that pays me money. I can wear jeans and work from home. There are a few nice folks who work there. The shenanigans of the CEO and other upper level executives provide amusing stories to share with friends and family.

Cons

Too many layers of management. Very top heavy. For example, in one department, there might be 3 middle managers with 4 direct reports between them. Company doesn't stick to it's "no-jerks" rule. Managers are quick to point out mistakes, usually in a rude manner, but when trying to point out that a manager has made a mistake, it is total "radio silence". Their ego's are too big, apparently. Seems to be a common theme at SF. Pay-for-performance is a joke. A remote employee who sends too many emails to their manager (located in another city/state) is dinged on their performance review for poor communication skills and doesn't receive a raise. There is no feed-back from managers beforehand to keep things like this from happening. Too many daily emails consisting of disingenuous nonsense from the executive level regarding how awesome we (meaning "they") are. Lars is the worst. Always sharing irrelevant stories about attending the Grammy's, bragging about phone calls from his Porsche dealer, or waxing poetic about his friends museum-quality art collections. He seems to have no clue how to relate to his employees. Too much a** kissing. Upper level executives have a tendency to behave like cheerleaders and pat each other on the back (marketing and HR are the worst). Definitely a "look-at-me-aren't-I-awesome" culture.

2.0
Apr 12, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

The nicest part about working at SAP is that you have flexibility to work anywhere, a lot of people work from their home office so most of our work is done over conference calls, emails and IM. They also offer good benefits (free lunches at major offices, good HR benefits, etc).

Cons

It's hard to get things done at SAP. Dependancies on collaboration can get in the way. I've worked on projects where you need over a dozen different approvals from different parts of the business to approve your project, and when one of the approvers ignores emails and misses meetings then wants to change things to benefit mainly his/her interest it is frustrating because everyone else suffers from the delay. SAP is also very process oriented, even if it doesn't make sense or slows things down, case in point it can takes 2 weeks to open a PO and about 2 months for a vendor to get paid, and most teams calculate their budgets in Excel.

5.0
Apr 12, 2012
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Pros

Benefits advancement Pay mgmt hr

Cons

Male dominated, not very hands on training, must learn a lot on your own

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