Sage reviews

3.6

63% would recommend to a friend

(5,269 total reviews)
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Steve Hare

70% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

Sage has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 5,269 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Sage employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
Feb 7, 2022

Wouldn’t recommend

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good PTO package compared to some US based companies. Benefits are decent.

Cons

Projects consistently have unrealistic timelines and expectations. This leads to an absence of work/life balance throughout the organization. There is a toxic “hustle culture” and I think they will have a lot of trouble recruiting and retaining the next generation of workers who reject this mindset and want a life outside of work. If you aren’t working crazy hours, you’ll be perceived as not working hard enough. If you aren’t double and triple booked with meetings, you’re not engaged. This company normalizes unhealthy behavior and in my experience, it was expected that you would work at all hours of the day to attempt to meet leaderships’ expectations. There are layoffs annually but they have gotten larger since COVID. If my math is correct, they laid off almost 10% of their workforce globally last November and called it an “investment in the future.” If you’ve seen other reviewers mention that our feedback is solicited often, it’s true. We were reminded that we are “allowed” to submit a Glassdoor review every couple of months. They say they want honest feedback, but there’s a response after each negative review encouraging employees to talk to their manager or submit feedback through the anonymous survey. I shared my feedback multiple times with my manager and responded to each survey. I also shared very honest feedback with, and proposed what I would consider simple solutions to a member of the senior leadership team. I didn’t expect immediate changes but I did not see any improvement and was never asked to elaborate on my feedback. I didn’t believe there would be meaningful change and I couldn’t successfully prioritize my personal obligations. This led me to find an amazing opportunity with another company where I haven’t experienced anything remotely close to what I experienced at Sage.

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Sage Response
4y
Thank you for your review. The wellbeing of our colleagues is a priority, and your feedback is concerning to hear. We want to ensure that all colleagues have a healthy work-life balance and are keen to understand why this was not your experience. We will investigate this further internally to understand where we can make improvements. Thank you also for your feedback on diversity; it is incredibly important to us that everybody has a chance to succeed at Sage. We are dedicated to ensuring that fairness and transparency sit at the heart of our recruitment and development processes.
2.0
Sep 6, 2021

The Small Company We Loved Is Gone

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The product is great and the customers are some of the best. Budget is also never an issue.

Cons

This company that was once a humble startup has evolved into a gigantic toxic enterprise company. There has been a huge rush of departures, folks who have been with the company 10+ years leaving. Just take a look at the turnover. Management overworks their teams, setting unreal expectations showing how they are not dialed-in to what it's like to actually perform. All leadership does is dictate and then look at spreadsheets. It is very toxic.

1.0
May 5, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Full time employees get paid something approaching a living wage. The building is pretty nice. Desks, equipment and cubicles are pretty good, too. It's nice not having big walls between you and your neighbor.

Cons

Gender pay gap is a problem. Even after certain individuals finally got a well deserved promotion (see below regarding promotion and hire freezes), certain individual was still paid significantly less than new hires. Management does not consider employee complaints and sweeps them under the rug. What kind of complaints? Pretty much all of them. During an "all in" meeting, we were told "I'm not asking you to astroturf Glassdoor with good reviews, but, all of you, please post a positive review on Glassdoor," almost verbatim. I say almost because that was last year during a discussion about how their Glassdoor score wasn't as good as they'd like. Corporate enforced a hire freeze and a promotions freeze that we were told about by management, even though I've seen Corporate argue tooth and nail that there has never been a hiring or promotion freeze. Customer support analysts are expected to do sales work even though there is a sales team. Also, even once the promotions freeze finally ended, not meeting your sales quota meant that you were not eligible for promotions. I sure hope you like pushing sales at the end of every call. I sure hope you didn't pick the support position because you like *helping people* and troubleshooting tricky problems, and aren't morally opposed to tricking people into spending money that they don't need to. Otherwise, this ain't the job for you. Sexual harassment issues went unaddressed for weeks by lower management, and then the people who went over lower management's head to report it to someone above them were punished for following sexual harassment training guidelines specifically stating that, if management won't help, go over their heads.

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Sage Response
6y
Thank you for leaving a review. Our mission is to support a culture at Sage that creates a positive colleague experience. Our career training programs, diversity and inclusion (Belong) program, our volunteer opportunities and compensation structure give all colleagues the opportunity to improve themselves, grow their career, and participate in programs to improve their lives both personally and professionally. Although businesses are always changing, especially during these times, our commitment to our colleagues remain the same. We are, however, very concerned about your comment about sexual harassment. This behavior is completely unacceptable and is not tolerated at Sage.
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