SAS reviews

4.0

76% would recommend to a friend

(3,100 total reviews)
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Jim Goodnight

80% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

SAS has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 3,100 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The SAS 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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1.0
Nov 7, 2014

SAS rapidly declining

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Pros

used to be a great place to work, friendly, talented teams that really made a difference to their customers.

Cons

Recent management changes have been a disaster, sales are plummeting and staff (at least the good ones) are leaving in droves. SAS UK could not move any further from the company's ethos and claims about valuing it's staff. The management and head office based staff are spoiled with the luxury in Marlow and have no idea of what it takes to make a long customer project successful. They live in a bubble and are arrogant and condescending to the people that do the real work. The staff that have brought success in the past are disillusioned and angry at the recent changes. They feel hugely undervalued and management attitudes are simply appalling. The best have already gone, others are biding their time - all are devastated that the company they loved is being destroyed. It would be easy to dismiss comments like mine as the ramblings of someone who 'lost out' in some way and is currently unhappy. But these views are universal within the organisation, I have never seen such unhappiness before. The final straw for me, was the recent cancellation of the Christmas party. The cancellation in itself wouldn't have been too distressing, however the tone of the announcement was a slap in the face. To claim that people would rather spend time with their families as a major reason for cancelling is just a joke.

3.0
Feb 13, 2018

Going in the wrong direction...

Anonymous employee
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Pros

SAS has a great reputation in the analytics space, so its good for your CV. A good place to go as a graduate, you will learn a lot, but make sure to leave within 3 years or you will drop too far behind the rest of the industry. If you are further in your career then think hard before you join. The pension is good, although make sure to negotiate a good entry salary, its unlikely that you will get a significant raise once you are in.

Cons

SAS technology is outdated, by a long way. I know that there are efforts to close the gap between SAS and free open source technologies that are 5 years old, but the gap is there and it looks like its increasing year on year. Your experience of SAS UK will vary greatly from function to function. Professional Services roles are terrible, there is no work-life balance at all, no sense of community, and no real sense that the organisation as a whole values you at all. Presales is full of folks that have been there too long and have very little knowledge of the competing technologies in the space,so if you join do not expect to learn anything newer and be prepared to have any good ideas beaten out of you. If you have an office bound role in HR or finance then you will have a great work-life balance and a really great work experience - check out what the back office functions say in the other reviews - nothing but positivity... Without the pension the benefits are pretty much the average for the industry, (albeit with a salary thats well behind the industry) although the folks that work at SAS UK have been there for so long they still view the benefits as amazing. There is no career progression, unless you play politics and a more senior role is created for you. Simply put employees in the middle management roles stay too long, meaning that younger employees have no where to go. To add to this the top management roles are always recruited from outside, so the middle managers have no where to go. Essentially this adds to the malaise of having no real view of the outside world and very little innovation. SAS UK had an egalitarian culture - with the revolving door of new senior managers at the top of SAS UK, that has gone, although most folks have been there for so long, there are like the proverbial frogs boiling in water - they haven't realised its not there any more.

2.0
Oct 20, 2017
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Pros

Flexible work environment, Reasonable Pay, Nice office, Some good people, Great and Proven technology

Cons

Probably , the worst run inside sales organisation in Dublin. The "Senior Management" have "NO" domain experience which renders them ineffective. For an analytics company not to use even basic reporting in running the day to day operations is "bizarre". If you are nice to Senior Management you will get what you want, if you see them for what they are, you won't! The culture and values of SAS in Dublin are not representative of those of the SAS Organisation as a whole. This review is for SAS Inside Sales only!! SAS Ireland is a separate organisation of which I have no experience.

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