Pros
The salary is pretty good for the position. The benefits including the $4.00 per diem for lunch are great. Depending on the department you work for you may have the opportunity to work from home.
Cons
Many of the departments are very territorial. You will frequently find that the most stressful part of your job will be dealing with other employees of SAP that do not understand that in the end you are all on the same team. Explanations on how to perform every day tasks in the system are poorly documented and the instructions that come from Germany are rarely helpful because they do everything differently over there. The sales team can be very arrogant and difficult to work with. Many of the departments do NOT have flexible hours. There is a school of thought that believes the $4.00 per diem for lunch at the cafeteria is designed to get employees to stay in the building all day and eat lunch at your desk so that they essentially get an extra hour of work out of you. Expect to be there at least nine hours every day, there is no skipping lunch and leaving early. Currently SAP America is in a hiring freeze and has been since late last year. There has been NO word on when the hiring freeze will be lifted. Quarter End's for Finance are a nightmare. If you have a family and want to spend Christmas, New Years Eve, Or July 4th with them this is not the place for you. I am not exaggerating when I say I left the building on New Years Eve at 9:30 PM and there were several people that were still there.
