SAS reviews

4.0

76% would recommend to a friend

(3,102 total reviews)
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Jim Goodnight

81% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

SAS has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 3,102 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The SAS 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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3K reviews
2.0
Jun 17, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits are very good, most people think you work at a personal resort, unlimited sick leave, your own personal office, on site health care, on site gym, 10%+3% 401k profit + match,

Cons

Too many people without a connection to reality, people who have never worked very hard, most people think you work at a personal resort, cafeteria is okay at best, Goodnight is a quiet megalomaniac, pretty conservative culture, daunting product set to learn- many of which barely sell, big disconnect between sales and R&D, they have too many sales people with too little opportunity to allow most of them to make quota

2.0
Apr 19, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Beautiful campus, great reputation, awesome benefits

Cons

The software is outdated and isn't being sold beyond legacy customers, new software iterations are slower and worse performers (customers do not want to use it), no one goes in to the office and those that do already have worked there for so long there are significant cliques that are hard to break into, very political landscape with internal management, upper management acts like they care about you but doesn't, and if you do the SAS academy as a new hire beware of the TRAP (training repayment agreement program) - it is NOT worth the money they force you to pay if you leave because the training while immersive isn't relevant to what you spend the majority of your time doing on your actual job and by the time you finish you forgot half of it anyway since you didn't get to apply the knowledge beyond your learning. Also beware that the hiring bonus follows the same repayment scheme - it doesn't go aware after 1 year but instead after two (no one else does this).

3.0
Mar 27, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Remote work - Competitive benefits package (declining in quality) - Plenty of downtime (nice) due to inefficient management (not nice)

Cons

- Little to no coordination within or across teams - Low, uncompetitive wages defended by "but the benefits" - Managers hiding disciplinary notes until they suddenly become relevant for suppressing compensation - Being laughed at by managers during compensation discussions - Remote work is used as a compensation bargaining tool, despite it being the industry standard for years and cheaper for the company - Outdated, overpriced software - Routinely exploits private-vs-public business regulations despite publicly announcing intentions to go public - Employee evaluation metrics are inconsistent, shortsighted, hypocritical, and intentionally biased against the employee - Employee skills will go unused and degrade until employees are no longer competitive candidates for similar positions at other companies - Provided technology (laptops, monitors, etc) is outdated, and requesting new tech/peripherals is clunky and dissuading - Company publicly champions its core values (authenticity, accountability, curiosity, passion) while management privately violates them

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