SAS reviews

Not so good if you want to grow your career as true growth opportunities are few and far between with most promotions led by an old boy network type ethos. In the time I was at SAS, management structures changed frequently, both in the UK and at Headquarters in Cary. There often seemed no logical reason for the changes other than empire building by those involved and unfortunately this meant that very good managers were replaced by less competent ones purely because either they, or their boss, could play a better political game than the incumbent management team. The UK has especially suffered because of this and has weak management across many areas of the business. SAS employs people with new and different skills because they acknowledge that the world of analytics is changing but are then not prepared to learn from their experiences. HR is not the employees friend and is purely their to protect the interests of the company not the employees. Middle management is generally very ineffective and are primarily administrators rather than people managers.

- Product is dated which poses problems since company dumps tons of money into R&D that is never realized. - Sales is shown little to no respect from the rest of the organization - Sales process has been hijacked by a bloated bureaucracy and takes forever - Half of your sales cycle is convincing internal resources to work with you - Comp plans are a mess. You actually get paid commission fewer months than you don't... - Tech support is the worst I've ever seen in the industry. Most of your role in sales is apologizing for the way your customers are treated by tech support. - Base pay is WAY below market pay... they claim its somewhere in the benefits package, and maybe that was true about 6-7 years ago... but it is a slap in the face by current standards.