Sage reviews

As of now I cannot bring myself to refer people I care about to this company. The only people I'd consider referring are random people off the street or my enemies. PTO caps got dropped ridiculously low from 200+ to 80, 40 and 0. Obviously it's all about the bottom line but they claim it's for our employee wellness. Before that, it was something ridiculous called Project Himalaya. What a joke that was. We lost so many talented and irreplaceable employees and no one cared to rehire more people or retain them. The majority of employees have no faith in Sage's current direction. All the rats are jumping ship with people quitting left and right. That should tell you something. The CEO has no clue about our business other than making us "the prettiest girl at the bar" and that we don't have to be the smartest one there if I recall his words correctly. We used to have a few hours a day to work on our support issues. They took away 30 mins to an hour at a time over the years and guess how many hours we have in the day to work on support issues now? ZERO. We're just mindless knowledgebase monkeys taking incoming phone calls now just like a low budget call center. I would not be surprised if they start decreasing our desk sizes to fit more KB monkeys or ship jobs to third world countries. But why is all this happening? Obviously we are a publicly traded company so our CEO has only one (legit) goal: Increase our stock price. After all, he has a few million dollars invested in it at a certain price. You can increase a company's profit by encouraging employees to work harder through management responsibility and a good working environment, or you can cut costs, reduce pay, reduce PTO, lay off people etc. Want to guess which way the decision makers went? Our CEO will be with us I think until 2020, hence the 2020 goal? That's when I'm guessing he can sell his shares or something.

Things at the Lawrenceville & Atlanta office have been on a decline for some time. We have lost many good employees due to layoffs and resignations and the hits just keep on coming. We just learned today that we are losing an important director in R&D. Unfortunately for Sage, he is well liked across departments and he seems to be the only one who can actually create new products for us to sell. I think his department last year put out 3-4 new products alone. It is hard to sit back and watch Sage lose a good leader especially because we seemed to be overwhelmed by poorly qualified and narrow minded managers and VPs as well as an arrogant and out of touch North America CTO. The truth is Sage is in trouble no matter how they try to spin it. I would not recommend Sage to anyone for employment. New grads would become frustrated without good leadership and learn a lot of what not to do before they move on to their next job. Experienced employees would be alarmed at the lack of direction and poor leadership, the slow laborious company processes, unfair sales practices, and the old cumbersome technology of most of our products. To anyone considering a position I say don't' be fooled by the new look of the modern Atlanta office and the HR spin on the great "One Sage" culture. It is all surface promises and hype. The company does not look out for it's employees. The HR department is contrived and useless. They pay under market value salaries, after you are hired they find ways to not pay bonuses or give merit increases and they are slowly decreasing our benefits. More importantly hard work and success are not recognized or appreciated. Morale couldn't be lower and the leaders sit back in complete denial protecting their own jobs. A previous review on this site warned Sage's competitors to "watch out" for upcoming business and products. Based on our old technology, lack of openness to change, staff loss and overall poor management my suggestion is to rest well competitors (whoever you are) you have nothing to worry about from Sage for a long time.