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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5K reviews
1.0
Mar 15, 2018

I'm desperately trying to get a new job

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Industry standard flexible benefits, plus standard amount of annual leave

Cons

Archaic internal systems and processes - ridiculous given Sage promotes itself as a leading technology company. Staff who have been here too long, who fail to understand that the world outside Sage is different, who constantly moan about how bad things are and yet they do not get off their backsides and find a job somewhere else, thus leading to morale issues in the wider team. Non supportive managers who fail to address longstanding issues of negative and inappropriate attitudes from some team members towards others. Staff including team leaders who are afraid of their next level of management and so never tell them the truth about what is going on if something is going wrong. Sage offers flexible working, but in reality, it is difficult to get and you have to fight very hard for it. These comments apply to the department I am in. I do believe that things are different in other departments, but as I have not worked in any, I can only comment on my own experiences.

1.0
Dec 11, 2017

Customer Success

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Pros

The people are incredible and most are hard working. With the proper training and management they could be a force to be reckoned with in the market. Sage chooses to mismanage and deplete the energy with target moving and unobtainable goals!

Cons

Poor moral. Horrible pay unless you are a favorite you cannot even get a gift or bonus at year end! Forever changing directions and never following through with any commitment. The lack regard for employees. The message to the stakeholders is not the same message to the employees. Always hiding and covering numbers.

1.0
Nov 1, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

On site gym, great pension scheme, great selection of benefits, hard working, passionate staff

Cons

Sage has been 'streamlining' year on year for about a decade now, slowly eroding everything that made the company great; staffing levels have been reduced or otherwise not increased where they should, performance targets have been increased year on year, pushing staff and stress levels to breaking point, customers are having to wait longer than ever before to receive lower quality support due to lack of training and experience as long serving technicians are driven away or managed out of the business and replaced by *cheaper* new starters. There is a marked an increase in sales focus [Sales training, even in technical support areas, exceeds actual product training by a factor of 2 at least] forcing customers to pay for support then pay again for training if they can't follow the support articles which are sent out by customer support instead of actually guiding the customer through the solution. Product development is focused almost exclusively on additional features that are only accessible through additional subscription costs to the customer and almost no resources are added to fixing known issues or making existing features better or easier to use. Internal processes are no better, Annual performance reviews are a farce because although you are allegedly benchmarked on a number of metrics, the only two that matter are your calls per hour and your sales target [yes, even in technical support your efficiency is based on sales!]

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Sage Response
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Thanks for your review. As you are a currently colleague I assume you attended the kick-off - FY18 "It starts with me" and the reinforcement of our customer obsession - helping our customers, ensuring they have the right products throughout the growth of their company. Sage is the only company on the planet that offers accounting, financial, people, payroll, enterprise management and payments software from the start-up through to enterprise - amazing! In FY17 we made NPS a continuous customer experience improvement system. We've standardised the way we engage with our customers and listen to their feedback, across all our channels. This has enabled us to share our customer feedback with functional teams so they can improve our customers’ experiences. We've established a central governance system so we can measure our performance and understand the impact of our efforts. These insights enable us to continuously improve our performance and our customer obsession.
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