SAS reviews

This WAS a great place to work. Unfortunately, they've decided to increase healthcare costs and allow employees to shoulder higher out-of-pocket costs. In addition, the retirement plan took a drastic hit. While HR would like you to "think" that increasing employer contributions to 6% is a great deal for employees, this is actually standard for a company of this size. Oh, and they took away the end of year employer retirement contribution - the best benefit of all (this is literally a $10k decrease in benefits for many people). But did you hear they added a few measly weeks onto maternity leave, making it more in line with other companies? I'm not sure how SAS was the best place to work in years prior, but I think they are barely squeaking by now as a "regular" company.

People who joined 2-3 decades ago haven't left yet (and not because they are worth keeping around necessarily). Nepotism and incompetence is rampant in certain departments within R&D. People are hired/ promoted/ given opportunities based on who they know rather than what they can do. The executive leadership is trying to do the right thing but immediately below them is a thick layer of VPs, senior directors, directors , managers (people who spend most days reminiscing about the "good old days" of SAS) who run their departments as personal fiefdoms and suppress/ turn a blind eye to any wrongdoings or mistreatment carried out by their favorite employees. Any action taken is too late and only to save their own skin. HR is too slow to react to incidents of workplace misconduct. There is no career path for young employees.