Politics, Politics, Politics - Director SAP Employee Review

2.0
13 Mar 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Global recognized brand, huge customer base, large scale projects working at a global company that makes technology most major companies use

Cons

Politics and culture of an old legacy software company are rampant. Extremely slow moving. Lots of people with extremely long tenures (which is not common in the tech world) that have no other experience outside SAP and are so very set in their ways--very political and "clickish". Lots of unproductive employees they can't get rid of due to european employment laws. Will take a miracle for SAP to improve the outdated culture, red tape, and bureaucracy built over the last several decades at this company. They're a bleeding talent from some of the innovative companies they have acquired in the last few years.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

No real cons for the job that I was in, except that our group was eliminated by the corporate restructuring and reduction in workforce in North America in 2025. I would have loved to stay but unfortunately we probably showed up on a restructuring spreadsheet somewhere and it was determined that our services were no longer needed. We off-boarded most of our work to other existing employees (who already had full time jobs), which felt unfair to them, but that is how it shook out.

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