Sage reviews

Disgusting performance review system. As a development team leader I have recently been forced to put one member of my team on the bottom of the bell-curve review system and subsequently onto the performance review program. Yes he was the weakest in the team but is absolutely NOT under performing and meets expectations for this role. I feel physically sick having been forced to do this. Despite the reviews on here condemning this practice, the person who reply’s to these reviews repeatable states “Sage is now a high performing culture” so it looks like Sage are not going to change this practice anytime soon. In the 15+ years of being an employee of Sage I have NEVER seen moral so low. As I write this there are several senior managers off sick with stress related illness, very experienced colleagues working out their notice periods and NO investment in the department. If you’re considering applying for a role at Sage, please read all the reviews from the past year or so (don’t bother with the obviously state-sponsored reviews, they stick out a mile) and you’ll see the truth.

This, in a nutshell is shown in the last handful of reviews of the company on here. We have honest feedback by those genuinely concerned about the company has become and the issue with the total lack of humanity, trust or warmth and pressure is destroying from within, followed by what looks like a threat posted by the executive that senior managers that are not performing will be removed. So in the space of a weak we have seen a message internally that anyone criticising the directors will be removed and now a threat that any senior manager the executive deems failing will be removed. With this the poison spreads down from senior managers to managers, to team leads to everyone. Each relationship is corrupted, all trust is lost. Each level behaves as though they are close to be fired and this is passed onto everyone in the company. We are in a continuous loop of trying to meet the next un-achievable, underfunded and under-resourced project goal or your job is under threat. No successful companies behave like this, none. This is a sign that those at the top of the company are out of their depth at the helm of a FTSE 100 technology company. Threats and hostility can never replace ideas and leadership. You aren't running a 1970s factory, you are running a tech company where talent and ideas get you success, not threats. What this creates is good people in management positions pushed further than they should ever be, making mistakes and expecting all of the reports to continuously work flat out, just to keep them in a job. Sage is a company that asks for everything, your dinner time, your life outside of work, the appraisal policy even states you need to work harder than we expect you to and do tasks we don't expect you to in your position, in order to simply get a cost of living pay increase and it rewards you with no job security and threats. The desire at all levels to stay in a job means short term penny pinching is more important than planning and burning your employees out is the norm. This wouldn't work if there was only 1 tech company offering careers of this type, but in a world where there is so many companies to chose to make your career, this is suicide as talent leaves.