SAS reviews

4.0

75% would recommend to a friend

(3,105 total reviews)
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Jim Goodnight

81% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

SAS has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 3,105 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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3.0
Nov 27, 2019

Becoming irrelevant

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Pros

Great benefits, competitive remuneration, plenty of learning opportunities, and generous rewards and recognition scheme

Cons

Products are released before they are ready, with far too many defects. Product management is not good at listening to feedback from the field on what improvements are needed. Struggling to make the transition to the cloud - the SAS Viya platform is still not cloud native after promising this when the platform was released 3 years ago. Strategy to counter the rise of open source analytics does not appear to be working as most data scientists under the age of 40 have no interest in using SAS and would rather stick to Python, R, Spark, etc. or vendor tools that sit on top of them. Very poor services capability to help customers achieve business outcomes on the products - professional services is predominantly focused on installing, configuring and walking away. Key capability areas that SAS was once well regarded in (data management and BI) have been under-invested in to the point where the organisation appears to have literally given up competing.

1.0
Oct 29, 2019

A victim of disruption?

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- A lot of good people stick with the company (but unfortunately less and less so in the past few years). - Work/life balance (depending on where you work). - On target earnings (if ever applicable). - Customer-base provides decent basis for interesting projects (if you can get to them).

Cons

- Proprietary SW and "old tech" (somebody obviously slept in class). ...and even Dr Schabenberger can't make up for the missed opportunities in the analytics (e.g. ML/AI) market. - Highly introverted culture ("clan-based", could be a positive thing, but at SAS it becomes stagnant...). - Extremely political organization - across the globe (especially if you have ambitions and care about your career development).

2.0
Oct 6, 2019

Get in and GET OUT

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Pros

Best Advice: Get In, Get Experience, and GET OUT. Work From Home Often Online Courses To Grow Career - though not easy to fit into your schedule Office Perks Like On Site Gym And Cafe Compensation Can Be Nice, Depending On Your Popularity

Cons

Everyone is the enemy. Customers, project managers, team leads - EVERYONE is constantly squeezing as much as possible out of you, non-stop. You can also be stuck with a horrible customer for YEARS with no hope of ever changing projects. And when you're not feeling the squeeze of project deadlines, it means you're on the bench and in fear of being perceived as "useless". If you're on the bench, there is absolutely no effort put into getting you a project you would want, and you're expected to SEEK out potential work by sweet talking project managers, and getting your name out there internally. You have a job, but somehow you still have to job hunt? There is a lot of talk about "teamwork" but barely any real world execution. Aside from a small number leadership and senior level staff having their cliques, the rest of us are workhorses, without any real sense of team or family. Everyone is out to get out of you AS MUCH as possible, and that is the bottom line. Your stress levels, work-life balance, or career interests are irrelevant. And the corporate structure is changing rapidly in a very negative way as the company continues to globalize.

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