- Massive inconsistencies across the business in terms of how employees are treated, performance managed (or not, in some cases...) and led by their department managers (or not led at all, in some cases..).
My time at Sage has been tainted by regular disappointments and frustrations at the lack of leadership, blurred lines of responsibility, setbacks in being developed directly by my manager and not feeling valued even though I have delivered excellent changes in the department and have had very good feedback from stakeholders in the business. Managers turn a blind eye or are, more worryingly, completely oblivious to bullying, favoritism, and are ignorant of their own lack of strategy and follow up in projects that they have been responsible for.
Performance reviews and conversations about development are not taking place in some areas, and I'm not sure how much the heads of departments are aware of this. . For those who want to learn more and make their efforts worthwhile within a business such as SAGE, this is very demotivating and only ends with a letter of resignation and a lost opportunity for SAGE.
- if you join sage, prepare yourself for a strong blame culture whereby a lot of people you work with will veto SAGE values for the sake of asserting their place in the organisation
- If you work in a support role, depending on who your manager is, you most likely will feel disposable, undervalued, and will have to manage your work upwards
- Unfortunately, if you are stuck with a manager who doesn't manage you will just have to take ownership of your own development and make sure that you don't get stuck with a negative mindset just because other people in the business are treated a lot better than you
