Great Place to Work, Limited Career Opportunities - Development Architect SAP Employee Review

3.0
5 June 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You are surrounded by bright, intelligent people, many with an academic nature science degree. The technologies used are very professional and opens very good opportunities to learn. The people are friendly, the management is fair. This is a very social company and cares about the people. You have offices with maximum four people, hence it is quiet. Coffee and lunch is free, you can chosse a company car and do not need to pay for the gas (but you need to pay a fee for the car depending on the price).

Cons

The directions change too fast, no long-term technology strategy has emerged so far that sustains with support by the upper management. A product release cycle can easily take years, hence rewards and career opportunities come slowly. Combined with fast changing strategies, products might never see the light of release after years of development (or, even worse, released but put directly into maintenance mode). Good for research, bad for career. Most important is the initial salary, after that an increase (beside inflation-adaption) will only happen in small one digit percent steps and once in ten years. You might need to switch the company for a real salary increase.

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Pros

Great benefits, full of opportunities to learn and support.

Cons

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4.0
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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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