Sounds good on the outside, rotten internally - Marketing SAP Employee Review

1.0
Aug 4, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Great brand name, produces a very high quality product, industry leader, pay and bens top 2 quartiles against similar companies, great for the CV.

Cons

Very Germanic culture - spreadsheets and death by powerpoint are the language, little entrusted to employees, cannot use your initiative, almost no career path or ongoing learning/development programmes, almost no feedback on job performance, good or bad. Top management is mostly recruited in from outside at high salaries with few internal promotions, little diversity - few if any women, minorities in positions of management, no transparency in communication and late communication when the rumour mill has been running until management figures out how to do PR messages, people are a commodity and not valued, HR very weak and does not work for employees at all. Toxic and highly political environment, especially in marketing department.

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Cons

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4.0
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Pros

The people at SAP are genuinely nice, and the culture is generally supportive. The work-life balance is good to an extent, but when you're busy, you're BUSY. SAP is highly complex so expect to take a year to ramp up.

Cons

Only way to get a high salary is if you're hired externally. They do not reward employees who are loyal to the company. Closed opportunities often have to go through the Compensation Exception Committee, creating uncertainty around earnings. Prepare for constant change, whether that's solutions being removed from your sales bag, account shifts, territory realignments, or changing compensation policies. Quotas can be difficult to attain

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