Sage reviews

3.6

63% would recommend to a friend

(5,266 total reviews)
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Steve Hare

70% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

Sage has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 5,266 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Sage 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
Jul 24, 2017

IT and Cloud professionals BEWARE! :( If your on a PIP your fired!

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Pros

Early on this was a good company to work for with some benefits... Then the cons became clear...

Cons

Long hours, late nights, revolving door of team members, crushing deadlines, unreasonable expectations, and did we mention in the end managers roll the most burned out employees through a PIP... HAHA if you get put on a PIP you will be terminated, its just their way of trying to get out of paying unemployment.

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Sage Response
8y
Thanks for your feedback. We do have great benefits across Sage and the feedback from colleagues suggests it works well in all 23 countries we operate in. We anticipate around 15% of our colleagues may fall short of requirements, needing improvement which may be supported through a Performance Development Plan or Performance Improvement Plan to get back them on track. Continued unsatisfactory performance may result in a colleague leaving the business. This approach to managing performance is no different to the majority of established organisations with ambitions to drive performance and ensure the sustainability of their business in the future. Thanks again for reviewing Sage.
1.0
Jul 16, 2017

Fleeing a sinking ship

Anonymous employee
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Pros

For the most part, great people to work with Nice facilities and building if a little run-down Good benefits Parking

Cons

Constant, directionless restructuring Management is made up of lifers who promote their friends, or short term tenures that leave quickly when they realise the mess they've joined i.e jaqueline de rojas (have a google). Progression in R&D an IT is a joke Mass exodus of experienced team leads and technical staff

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Sage Response
8y
Thanks for your review. We'd agree that we have awesome colleagues and the facilities across the Sage portfolio are brilliant and it seems every month we open a newly refurbished office which our people love! Our rewards team work hard to ensure our pay, rewards and benefits are good as well. Our transformation is about creating an all-encompassing 'One Sage' and we are pleased to say there's been a lot of progress and the effects are having strong positive outcomes. Our CEO, Stephen Kelly and his Leadership Team have developed a great strategy and a strong vision to energize the success of businesses and communities around the world through the imagination of our people and smart technology. The restructuring allows collaboration like we've never had before at Sage, how we live our values, and how we flawlessly execute to put our customers first. The aim is also about bringing brilliant execution, a strong and positive culture, and our cause of supporting the business builders together. We have amazing people, great products that every business on this planet needs, and a cause that inspires us to do our very personal best. Our global colleague engagement survey has just closed and the results are being analysed. There's also lots of other engagement activities going on as well as others being planned. Thanks again for your feedback.
1.0
Mar 19, 2017

Software as a disservice

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Pros

Many of the people you work with are good people. The business partners from the channel are also great to work with.

Cons

Never in my life have I worked for such an unprofessional company. I have been in situations innumerable times that made me question my morales and the integrity of this company. The entire "sales floor" is little more than a bunch of over paid bill collectors. They use fear and intimidation instead of service and value to renew customers. Oftentimes they also prey on customers ignorance to move people from over priced perpetual software onto over priced subscriptions that offer no value or improvements in the solution. Commission structures are subject to change at a moments notice and can be retroactively applied to recoup money sales reps rightfully earned. Quotas are made unobtainable for the aforementioned "bill collectors" resulting in "alternative" methods of revenue generation. Often of an unscrupulous nature. The channel program is a joke. The partners are treated like garbage. The channel managers are little more than glorified lead distributors who all seem to be on highly paid vacation. The attempted blend of indirect and direct sales is a complete disaster resulting in animosity on both sides of the business. VPs, directors and managers all concern themselves more with interpersonal relationships and favoritism than actual leadership. Everyone of them is cracking a whip instead leading the charge. It's spiraling out of control and the writing is clearly on the wall.

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Sage Response
9y
Thanks for spending time writing your review. Unethical behaviour is not tolerated at Sage as detailed in our Code of Conduct, all colleagues here have access to the free and confidential ‘Safecall’ line in the event they wish to draw attention to any wrongdoing. To equip leaders with the tools and the skills, we are about to launch a new leadership development programme for 2,000 Sage leaders. Our ambition is to ensure that every day our leaders encourage, support and stretch colleagues to develop their full potential here. It will help them to quickly identify and address low levels of performance and recognize those that go ‘above and beyond’ delivering great service to our customers, partners and accountants. Thanks for your review. I see you've left Sage, may I wish you every success with your career.
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