SAP Software Developer reviews

4.2

89% would recommend to a friend

(1,887 total reviews)
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Christian Klein

78% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

Software Engineer/Developer employees have rated SAP with 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 1,887 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineer/Developer professionals have an excellent working experience there. SAP is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Engineer/Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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2K reviews
4.0
Sep 14, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Stability, investment in employees' personal development, very good benefits, good work-life balance, great people, helpful and supportive environment, very good atmosphere.

Cons

Heavy bureaucracy, pushing things takes very ling time, relying a lot on inside developments with little openness to existing things, a little behind on the outside world technology-wise.

3.0
Sep 3, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

* Very relaxed work culture. * Work from home and generous leave policy. * Approachable and friendly managers. * No micromanagement. * Free food & shuttle facility. * Could be financially rewarding once strong expertise in SAP related technologies is obtained.

Cons

* Work (ABAP) is mind numbingly boring! Majority of the work deals with the maintenance of legacy code written in a legacy language. You will spend 90% of your time in maintenance, fixing silly bugs in poorly written code handed over to you, rather than develop serious features. * The proprietary development and testing tools used here are terrible compared to the open source alternatives available. * Slow pace of work. * Quality of people is not great (although there are exceptions); a lot of people know just enough for their day to day work. This can be rephrased as the lack of a strong engineering culture. * Staying too long with ABAP can make you virtually skill less and unemployable as a developer outside the SAP domain. This is mainly due to the intellectual stagnation one undergoes working with ABAP. All in all, this company is far from ideal if you are a passionate technologist, but if you like to settle into a low pressure job while drawing a reasonable salary and decent perks, this seems to be the perfect place.

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