SAS reviews

People who joined 2-3 decades ago haven't left yet (and not because they are worth keeping around necessarily). Nepotism and incompetence is rampant in certain departments within R&D. People are hired/ promoted/ given opportunities based on who they know rather than what they can do. The executive leadership is trying to do the right thing but immediately below them is a thick layer of VPs, senior directors, directors , managers (people who spend most days reminiscing about the "good old days" of SAS) who run their departments as personal fiefdoms and suppress/ turn a blind eye to any wrongdoings or mistreatment carried out by their favorite employees. Any action taken is too late and only to save their own skin. HR is too slow to react to incidents of workplace misconduct. There is no career path for young employees.

Salaries are way below market and have been stagnant for many years. Promotions are very few and it seems hard to advance, even as a somewhat entry level employee. The IPO news, while exciting, will bring changes that I fear won’t be for the best. Probably controversial but mandating vaccines or you’re forced to resign is ridiculous. Lots of disconnect between upper management and developers. Attrition this year has been ridiculously high for SAS. Lots of knowledge and career SASers have left, and hardly anyone has been hired to replace them. Lots of reason contribute to this but salaries have to be one of them.