a great company to work for , but not in Dublin! - Senior Support Engineer SAP Employee Review

The salary are “in theory” very good , but the reality is that they will pay way below the internal salary range (pretty much the bare minimum) and the salary increase is generally between 1% and 2% a year which doesn’t even cover the inflation rate in Ireland! The environment has become extremely lazy , with some people not busy at all spending most of their time in the canteen or browsing the net ,while other employees are overloaded and management doesn’t care! Working very hard or doing nothing get you almost the same in terms of recognition and bonus at the end of the year! This environment just promotes mediocrity and unhappy demotivated people. Most roles are very SAP specific so not really easy to “sell” knowledge/.experience outside SAP. No real training most of it is “on the job” . The pension scheme is not good and the company will contribute with only 2% … in some departments , the requirements are now to travel 3/4 months year onsite at customer's premises , and you practically do it for free! (lately , only interns/graduates are hired to reduce costs and generally Ireland has become a “low cost” location , without half of the perks that German / American employees are provided with.) middle management is surely the worst part : 90% of the managers are (Irish) dinosaurs that have been in the company for 12/15 years (most of them never had a previous job before that) and they have been managers for 10 , so most of the time your performance review is done by someone who doesn’t actually know exactly what your role is and what your tasks are exactly!