Disconnected and Mismanaged - Anonymous employee Sage Employee Review

2.0
9 Aug 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

You'll meet some great colleagues and there are free snacks

Cons

Upper and Senior Leadership are disconnected from 'lower' employees and even the products that they sell. There is this strange belief that the more people you throw at something the better instead of taking a moment to discover the real reason that a product, like Financials, isn't working. It's not because of the people who are selling it or the Success Coaches and Partners who are trying tirelessly to implement it...it's the product itself. If anyone from the senior leadership or the CEO himself were to follow the work that goes into the product from when it's sold until it went live they would be shocked. They only want to believe their own utopia marketing and catch phrases like that are simply not true - there is not easy about integrating a 3rd party app into Financials to make that "one-stop shop" you all keep harping on about. You can keep putting lipstick on a pig but it's still a pig. The first mass lay-off came as a shock and the management had the audacity to conduct a "fake training" while people were pulled out one by one and let go. Then the second lay-off there was NO plan to follow up with customers or partners or EVEN our colleagues in the Dublin offices. Two weeks passed with escalation calls and emails that were going to employees who were no longer there and our Dublin counterparts were wondering where we [ATL] were. All and all this is a TOXIC workplace and should be avoided until Senior Leadership figures out how to stop applying band aids and actually get in the trenches.

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Sage Response
1mo
Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughtful and balanced review. We’re pleased to hear that you value your compensation and benefits, as well as the work our Foundation do, among the areas you’ve highlighted. We also recognise the points you’ve raised around bureaucracy, innovation, and the pace and focus of change. Different people are motivated by different things at work, and it’s helpful to hear honest perspectives on how our structure, processes, and priorities can impact day‑to‑day experience and engagement. Feedback like yours helps inform ongoing conversations as we continue to evolve our ways of working, use technology more meaningfully, and improve the products and experiences we create for our customers. If you’re open to sharing further insight, we encourage you to do so through our Always Listening survey. Thank you again for your openness and for being part of Sage.
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