SAS really WAS a great place to work, 25 years ago.
Pros
Management's blasé faire approach makes it easy to stay at the gym all day and do nothing productive. Free office supplies!!
Cons
SAS really WAS a great place to work, 25 years ago. Unfortunately, they've decided to increase healthcare costs and allow employees to shoulder higher out-of-pocket costs. From my years of experience there, typically every year a little piece of your benefit package would be removed, supposed to be due to costs. However the art collection never seems to be in jeopardy. In addition, the retirement plan took a drastic hit in 2018 - no more profit sharing (Used to be double digits, but it’s gone in 2018 - trying to remain competitive!). All while a brand new multi-million dollar unneeded building is being built. While HR would like you to "think" that increasing employer contributions to 6% is a great deal for employees, this is actually standard for a company of this size. Salary is much lower than compared, SAS's perception is that allowing you to come to there "glorious" campus to work, should somehow outweigh any monetary benefits you were missing out on. When I accepted my position with SAS, I was really hoping for a career that a could grow with, not some lame gym membership as a compromise. Stalled growth has limited raises, bonuses and profit sharing. Absolutely no career advancement. None. One of my many managers was there for 27 years before they even made him a manager! Really, 27 years!!! This was for a pretty basic job that a college student should have been doing. In general, performance isn't tied to these promotions anyway. Everyone gets the same thing so why bother putting in hard work? It is all about who you know at SAS. This is really obvious when working there. Now that many people have figured out that you can literally do nothing all day at SAS and be promoted just like a top performer, it makes it really hard for new employees who are used to and expecting to work hard and to be rewarded for it. SAS does not operate that way. You will be judged by some disgruntled manger who is sour because it took him 27 years to become a low level manager, and having a meeting with there employees is a just roadblock that they must get it over with in order to get through another boring day at SAS. This does not make people fell wanted and valued as an employee. As a younger person, SAS is a career suicide. SAS was an ok, company but I made the decision to leave in order to move forward. The area where the HQ is located, there are too many other companies around to waste your time with this one.
