SAP is good company, but not quite what it was several years back - Sales SAP Employee Review

4.0
12 Dec 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

SAP was a great company with a great product. Its still a very good company, but there hasn't been nearly enough innovation recently to keep it going at the rate that it was. Especially in the Americas, there is huge pressure to deliver results every quarter. This has started to spread to other regions of the world. In general, delivering sales is a very good thing, but not if you continually steal from future quarters. It eventually catches up with you. SAP really cares about helping its customers be successful. There is a genuine desire to keep promises and live up to customer expectations. Benefits and comp are good, but not quite what they were several years ago.

Cons

There is now a really thick layer of upper middle management. Too many VPs and SVPs running around trying to stay relevant. There has been a general lack of innovation recently, so sales reps are running out of new products to sell. As a result, they only thing they can do is play "let's make a deal" which really means they will offer customers such a great deal that you can't really pass it up. Not sustainable. Development seems to have lost their touch. It can take years for products to hit the market, and then they are often too buggy to ship. (BBD!) Too many annual re-organizations. A new set of management comes in and the first thing they do is shake things up so a few people can get promoted and it makes is seem like they are accomplishing something.

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Pros

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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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