SAS reviews

You will work on some really unsexy products here, which tend to make it to market about 10 years too late (for example, their core product still has no way to make native REST calls and parse JSON endpoints). Build system is something out of the 90s. Hilariously lacking automated testing; a lot of it is done by hand, or by systems so brittle that they're only run manually. Simple bugs take months to fix. When I left, lots of development was still happening in Adobe Flash. Because of the high rate of tenure here, there is very little room to advance into management. Promotions are granted based on seniority. You can never make a difference here, and any disruptive ideas are squashed pretty quickly. Annual raises are percentage based; the only way you will ever see your salary increase substantially is by switching departments.

Just like any large organization (about 13,000 worldwide & 5000 in Cary) their are a lot of internal politics. There is a lot of good ole boy & girl networks that if you are not a part of you can forget about getting into management. Even if you do get into mgmt many people whom are/were managers say it's not hardly worth it. There is not much more pay for being a manager yet your duties are significantly increased. Many times managers have people making more than them doing less work. Interesting. You can really get stuck in a corner there, although they do allow internal job movement. The lack of organized, planned out product development is amazing. They have been struggling with the "silos of development" for many years. It is very hard, even as an employee, to get up to speed on new product details, especially lower level technical details. Owner is making billions while senior technical people (especially outside of R&D) struggle to get to $100k. As typical in large org.s the nepotism has paid off for some though. The chosen ones.