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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3K reviews
3.0
May 16, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

If you live close enough to work on campus (Cary, NC) then SAS is a great place to work, one of the best. 4 day cares, car wash, fitness center, health center, dry cleaner, barber, masseuse, multiple cafeterias and lots of other perks make working in Cary amazing, and people in those positions rarely leave. The benefits package on it's own is pretty good. After your first full year employees get a few thousand dollars from profit sharing. Once you're in you can move laterally within the company fairly easily. Everyone but the sales organization clocks 35 hours a week. Longtime SAS customers/user are loyal and intelligent.

Cons

Benefits are being trimmed down and are now on par with any large company. Regional offices are "out of the good-old-boy network" and don't have the perks that make SAS the "#1 Place to Work" (a la Fortune). Dr. Goodnight has let others take control of key areas of the company and they're taking a once great private company that cares about it's customers and employees down the path of all the other publicly traded companies. Gone are the days of caring about customer satisfaction and success. Sell and move on, sell and move on.

2.0
Jun 17, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits are very good, most people think you work at a personal resort, unlimited sick leave, your own personal office, on site health care, on site gym, 10%+3% 401k profit + match,

Cons

Too many people without a connection to reality, people who have never worked very hard, most people think you work at a personal resort, cafeteria is okay at best, Goodnight is a quiet megalomaniac, pretty conservative culture, daunting product set to learn- many of which barely sell, big disconnect between sales and R&D, they have too many sales people with too little opportunity to allow most of them to make quota

2.0
Apr 19, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Beautiful campus, great reputation, awesome benefits

Cons

The software is outdated and isn't being sold beyond legacy customers, new software iterations are slower and worse performers (customers do not want to use it), no one goes in to the office and those that do already have worked there for so long there are significant cliques that are hard to break into, very political landscape with internal management, upper management acts like they care about you but doesn't, and if you do the SAS academy as a new hire beware of the TRAP (training repayment agreement program) - it is NOT worth the money they force you to pay if you leave because the training while immersive isn't relevant to what you spend the majority of your time doing on your actual job and by the time you finish you forgot half of it anyway since you didn't get to apply the knowledge beyond your learning. Also beware that the hiring bonus follows the same repayment scheme - it doesn't go aware after 1 year but instead after two (no one else does this).

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