SAS reviews

* Management varies. There is no real cohesive management training. I personally had my best and worst manager of all time while at SAS. * Some in management believe the employee mix will consist of a bell curve so they will never have a team made up of a complete team of extraordinary individuals. At performance review time someone will get the low and high numbers but most will be in the middle no matter what. * Politics run rampant in some areas, others it doesn't. It's just not consistent. * No matter what the individual does within their performance review it will not make a difference with a ill-informed manager. The employee must learn to play the game. * HR practices could use some work. There are no call backs or communications on anything other than hiring actions. So if a job closes or someone else is hired the rejected candidate will never know. * It's hard to know how the actual employee touches the customer and not just affects another company's bottom line. I want to know how I am helping an individual not just making someone else money. * Hard to move around in the company unless you are at HQ. * Would not recommend SAS for middle career employees.

Not a place for rapid advancement. Downside to low turnover is management stays static and almost impossible to get to next level. Company also is low on the overall pay scale for a tech company of its profile.