SAP reviews

4.2

85% would recommend to a friend

(24,983 total reviews)
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76% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

SAP has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 24,983 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The SAP 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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4.0
Oct 9, 2008
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Pros

You can really make things happen here. Rather flat hierarchies, very globally oriented company with loads of very smart people. Senior management is very accessible and it is a very stable employer who really protects their employees. Given the international setup there are a lot of opportunities to travel, work in intercultural setups, work accross different time zones and interaction between employees is very informal. Flexible work time agreements, generous vacation packages even in the US, possibilities to explore different carreer pathes. It is the leader in business applications and tends to make the right decisions.

Cons

Once you joined in a position and most importantly salary range, it is significantly tougher to make salary jumps as opposed when you join externally. Guess this is the flip side of the coin, where hierarchies are rather flat so there is limited opportunities for growth in the classical management carreer path, even though SAP offers expert carreer pathes and project management carreer pathes to compensate for this. Outside recognition of those titles though is awkward for interaction with customers. It is a very much consensus driven company which at times hinders fast paced innovation, creating internal competition rather than the best possible synergetic approaches

5.0
Oct 7, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Extremely bright people who are doing work that actually impacts the businesses who buy our software. Culture appreciates knowledge, integrity, and hard work. Nice to work for a software company that doesn't want to "hit it big with the next whizbang idea"....but rather wants to improve how business get us the products and services we need.

Cons

Many of the German employees view the American employees as "a step lower." Not incredibly so, but noticeable at times.

4.0
Oct 4, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

SAP Canada provides an excellent working environment, great perks (like free drinks and lunches) and a professional and respectful culture. Its HR and operations departments are second to none.

Cons

The technology stack that SAP as a whole uses is not in par with the best that you find in the industry. ABAP was abused beyond its intended purpose, and the systems developed at SAP are bloated and hard to work with. There's a lot of needless complexity and the developers have to solve many nasty little problems. It's hard to extend the internal frameworks and to create innovative features within their constraints.

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