Sage reviews

3.5

63% would recommend to a friend

(5,257 total reviews)
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Steve Hare

70% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

Sage has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 5,257 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
Apr 26, 2018

Horrible Culture and Dysfunctional Leadership

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Paid Time Off - 21 days

Cons

Pay attention to the negative reviews - They are telling the truth about the 'true' culture and leadership of Sage. The fake positive reviews are being driven by the company trying to improve their Glassdoor ratings compared to their competitors, rather than fixing the root causes of the horrible culture and dysfunctional leadership. There's no true strategy for the company. It's like throwing spaghetti against a wall to see which strategy will work in each of the regions. They are in financial trouble now because they don't know how to properly manage their revenue and expenses, so they overspend without ensuring they have enough money to cover costs. In desperation with their stock price plummeting to the lowest it's ever been in the history's company, they are firing as many as people as they can to make sure the end of the year financial goals are met in September. They don't care about employees and use the performance management process to put as many people on Performance Improvement Plans to eventually fire them. This happens frequently throughout the year. The culture is heartless and very stressful with many employees going on medical leave (if they don't leave first) because of the toxic culture. It's a poisonous company - Seriously, stay away!!!

2.0
Sep 16, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Company has a great reputation, product and working facilities.

Cons

Disorganised sales strategy and business planning process. Amateur finance processes and systems (ironically). Overpromising to board and investors, resulting in underperformance despite positive growth against last year. Leadership does not care about staff - happy to sack people to achieve their bonus targets. Senior global sales leaders lead by shouting 'sell more' with no vision on how to do it. Confused, disorganised, overworked and staff under the constant fear or being performance managed out or made redundant by the thousands.

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Sage Response
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Firstly, thanks for taking the time to write your review. Your feedback matters and what you say concerns us. We have a Code of Conduct that provides a clear set of rules for colleagues and when they see something that goes against the Code they are encouraged to discuss with their manager, their People Business Partner or a SafeCall number, which is free and confidential. If you would like to discuss further please contact me lynne.ellis-parker@sage.com. Leading@Sage is the development program providing leaders with the tools and techniques to help their teams flourish in a high performance customer focused environment – and this includes coaching as a way to help colleagues reach their full potential here. Shouting at colleagues is not acceptable and not tolerated – it is the sort of behaviour that goes against our Code of Conduct. Our culture encourages ambition, simplification, and bias for action at pace and our finance team takes immense pride in putting our customers first and foremost. It is important of course that we continuously improve so we review, invest and develop our systems and internal processes all the time. It is disappointing that your experience has not matched expectations, but we appreciate your feedback and wish you well.
2.0
Nov 11, 2016

Trending Downward

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The people in the office were what made coming in every day worth it. I had a good work/life balance as well. This will obviously depend on what team/department you end up with. I was fortunate to be grouped with a smart and passionate team during my time here. The benefits were pretty substantial at the start, however, it seems that each year something new is reduced to save costs.

Cons

Where do I even begin? As mentioned in many of the previous reviews, high instability exists especially at the top levels of management. The rotating chair of executives means that the strategic initiatives and overall direction will probably be subject to change indefinitely. This isn't a one-oft occurrence but a repeating cycle that happens like clockwork, seemingly every three to four years or so. The company is trying to reinvent itself as a SaaS provider when really, they are merely a holding company, with outdated and overpriced products slowly losing more and more market share. "Organic growth" is a pipe dream and the company has problems attracting and retaining the talent needed to move forward. Employee morale and channel partner satisfaction is extremely low across the board. It seems this current batch of leaders are content in appearing shiny to the stockholders without caring about actual results. And this is just the tip of the iceberg, unfortunately.

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