The blue-chip of the blue-chips but German culture is not for everyone. - Industry Principal SAP Employee Review

3.0
Aug 26, 2008
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Pros

As the blue-chip of the blue-chip software vendors one should endeavor to go through SAP's doors at least once in your career. Does good things for your CV.

Cons

Germany culture is not for everyone. Definitely the anti-thesis of American style culture companies. The breadth of the solution is so huge unless you have prior experience working on any of their products newbies get overwhelmed very quickly. It may take more than a year to be acquainted sufficiently to perform the role of a sales consultant to customer. That's the reason why a lot of people scrape by in SAP and don't earn the respect of the SAP folks internally. There's a lot of newbies and old folks in the company but the middle is bare!

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5.0
May 29, 2026
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Pros

Great company, Great ethic, Extremely customer service and satisfaction oriented

Cons

Could be more aggressive to acquire US baed firms. Apart from that there is no cons at the moment

4.0
May 29, 2026
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Pros

I really liked my role at SAP. After being a cloud Customer Success Manager supporting strategic clients for several years, I moved into a group doing digital customer outreach including producing newsletters, release enablement, webcasts, documentation, event registrations, etc. Salary and bonuses were good, no complaints there.

Cons

No real cons for the job that I was in, except that our group was eliminated by the corporate restructuring and reduction in workforce in North America in 2025. I would have loved to stay but unfortunately we probably showed up on a restructuring spreadsheet somewhere and it was determined that our services were no longer needed. We off-boarded most of our work to other existing employees (who already had full time jobs), which felt unfair to them, but that is how it shook out.

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