Sage reviews

3.5

63% would recommend to a friend

(5,261 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 5,261 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
Nov 1, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

On site gym, great pension scheme, great selection of benefits, hard working, passionate staff

Cons

Sage has been 'streamlining' year on year for about a decade now, slowly eroding everything that made the company great; staffing levels have been reduced or otherwise not increased where they should, performance targets have been increased year on year, pushing staff and stress levels to breaking point, customers are having to wait longer than ever before to receive lower quality support due to lack of training and experience as long serving technicians are driven away or managed out of the business and replaced by *cheaper* new starters. There is a marked an increase in sales focus [Sales training, even in technical support areas, exceeds actual product training by a factor of 2 at least] forcing customers to pay for support then pay again for training if they can't follow the support articles which are sent out by customer support instead of actually guiding the customer through the solution. Product development is focused almost exclusively on additional features that are only accessible through additional subscription costs to the customer and almost no resources are added to fixing known issues or making existing features better or easier to use. Internal processes are no better, Annual performance reviews are a farce because although you are allegedly benchmarked on a number of metrics, the only two that matter are your calls per hour and your sales target [yes, even in technical support your efficiency is based on sales!]

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Sage Response
8y
Thanks for your review. As you are a currently colleague I assume you attended the kick-off - FY18 "It starts with me" and the reinforcement of our customer obsession - helping our customers, ensuring they have the right products throughout the growth of their company. Sage is the only company on the planet that offers accounting, financial, people, payroll, enterprise management and payments software from the start-up through to enterprise - amazing! In FY17 we made NPS a continuous customer experience improvement system. We've standardised the way we engage with our customers and listen to their feedback, across all our channels. This has enabled us to share our customer feedback with functional teams so they can improve our customers’ experiences. We've established a central governance system so we can measure our performance and understand the impact of our efforts. These insights enable us to continuously improve our performance and our customer obsession.
1.0
Oct 26, 2017

A tyrannical wolf in sheep clothing!

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Recommend
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Pros

Great products, product development and partners

Cons

There is a poisonous atmosphere in the air at Sage Sydney created by a single entity who belittles everyone of HER staff members. A selfish power hungry liar with a flagrant disregard for inter-company and partner relationships. She appears to be who she is not and is causing an exodus of loyal, hardworking qualified staff members. BEWARE!

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Sage Response
8y
Thanks for your feedback. I personally feel sad and disappointed to read your review. We don't want people exhibiting such behaviours at Sage and I urge colleagues to call the SafeCall number outlined in the Code of Conduct to ensure this behaviour is eliminated.
1.0
Oct 18, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

They pay for your MSP.

Cons

I was in the technical support of their most developed product as bilingual tech support. Sage is an awful company to work. The managers always put pressure on you to take calls. You get warnings and they chat you as soon as you are not right on time with the rules. You have basically 4 mins after call to get back in queue. If you want to go to the washroom, they will chat you right away to ask why you are not on queue. They give you the illusion of a career plan, but it's fake, they need SO MUCH french speaking that they will never let you go. Once you have reached the support it's forever. Also something really bad that I had to go through pretty much everyday and which shows how poor is their management: managers are thinking only about their stats, so as soon as a call was reaching 30mins of waiting time in the queue, they were asking to bilingual agents from a different product, to pick up the call and ask if they wanted a callback (which never happened) or to put them back in the queue. However, because you picked the phone if you put them back in the queue, they start waiting from the beginning so they might wait an extra 30 mins. The only reason for that is the stats of the manager. So, they are supposed to provide the "best customer experience ever" but it's actually the opposite, only the stats matters even though employees are stressed and tired and customer angry.

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