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      4.0

      76% would recommend to a friend

      (3,101 total reviews)
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      Jim Goodnight

      80% approve of CEO

      59% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.3

      Work/Life balance

      4.2

      Culture & values

      4.1

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.7

      Compensation and benefits

      3.6

      Career opportunities

      3.5

      Senior management

      SAS has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 3,101 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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      3K reviews
      3.0
      Oct 20, 2017

      Once competitive, but no longer so.

      Technical manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Flexibility Great co-workers On-site gym and healthcare Most employees have their own office Onsite cafes Parental leave Some managers get it. If you have a good one, you’ll be happy and likely stay.

      Cons

      Legacy employees who need to retire or leave but Goodnight won’t layoff because of his pride of “years of successful growth without layoffs”. Low Salary HR’s rules don’t apply to HR No profit sharing (Used to be double digits, but it’s gone in 2018 - trying to remain competitive!) Top-heavy management Disjointed/lack of vision and focus - always playing catch-up to competitors, not building what customers want with regards to cloud. Low sales numbers = low morale Lack of work flexibility options - Goodnight built this so he wants people to come to work.

      3.0
      May 12, 2016

      True Story

      Systems engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      SAS Institute has great benefits

      Cons

      SAS Institute is a cult like environment where the managers get away with anything and everything and those lower are stuck. Its like a kingdom, only the top 1% get the real growth.

      3.0
      Sep 9, 2015

      Where Engineers Atrophy

      Systems engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      If you are in R&D, you will enjoy incredible job security. Nobody ever gets fired. You can go home at the end of the day and leave work at work. You can get by for years without ever doing any work. If you have a small startup, this is a great incubator. Just show up to work every day, appear to be busy, and they give you a quiet office, great healthcare, and will leave you alone for days at a time.

      Cons

      You will work on some really unsexy products here, which tend to make it to market about 10 years too late (for example, their core product still has no way to make native REST calls and parse JSON endpoints). Build system is something out of the 90s. Hilariously lacking automated testing; a lot of it is done by hand, or by systems so brittle that they're only run manually. Simple bugs take months to fix. When I left, lots of development was still happening in Adobe Flash. Because of the high rate of tenure here, there is very little room to advance into management. Promotions are granted based on seniority. You can never make a difference here, and any disruptive ideas are squashed pretty quickly. Annual raises are percentage based; the only way you will ever see your salary increase substantially is by switching departments.

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