Great, until it wasn't - Development Expert SAP Employee Review

4.0
25 Aug 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

In my 11 years with SAP, the company consistently grew and made their financial targets. This is an important consideration as your bonus and overall company morale are tied to it. I felt for a long while that the company cared deeply about engineering, a comfort being an engineer myself. Many on my team had been there for years and I loved them. The interactions I had with members of other teams were generally pleasant and respectful.

Cons

To continue growing organically once you reach a certain size is difficult. so acquisitions become necessary. M&A is notoriously difficult to get right, and I'd say SAP may have been better than average overall. But its expensive acquisition of Qualtrics seemed, to me, to correlate with a very sharp turn in strategy, such that its formerly darling HANA abruptly lost its appeal. To wit: 4000+ plus employees were laid off, myself included.

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Pros

Great benefits, full of opportunities to learn and support.

Cons

Rounds of layoffs due to changes in tech direction. Plan accordingly and stay flexible!

4.0
29 May 2026
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Pros

I really liked my role at SAP. After being a cloud Customer Success Manager supporting strategic clients for several years, I moved into a group doing digital customer outreach including producing newsletters, release enablement, webcasts, documentation, event registrations, etc. Salary and bonuses were good, no complaints there.

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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