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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2.0
Aug 13, 2016

Working at Sage

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Pros

Good people (although this is very sadly shrinking) Good employee benefits Some good junior managers

Cons

Bad working culture. Under Steve Kelly after the restructure in December no direction. Mass redundancies then exit of knowledgeable, specialist, passionate people. High stress, inappropriate unachievable deadlines with little or no resources people/tech. Cutting costs to the point we cannot function, while wasting money on meaningless prestige, hiring half a floor in the Shard. Do not recognise/reward specialists. Ever decreasing respect/treatment of staff. The CEO Steve Kelly standing next to Richard Branson at the Sage Summit as a status symbol when implementing the exact opposite of Bransons ethos.... putting staff first.

2.0
May 5, 2016

Going Downhill

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Colleagues are great. They plan activities to boost morale.

Cons

The upper management who are very out of touch with what their employees do or how to stick to a process. They are so desperate to sell Sage products so they make exceptions all the time for clients and partners which is a disaster when those same clients and partners expect to get away with more discounts and no one can keep up with what's doable and not doable for processing those sales. Lack of structure overall.

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1.0
Feb 10, 2016

Unstable Company

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Pros

The people are what make this company worth working for and I don't mean the executives. The company survives on the backs of the hard-working employees that take on more than should be expected. The benefits are still decent, however PTO was recently capped for all employees except those in California (due to a California law).

Cons

Where to begin...for starters the company recently went through a huge round of layoffs for the North American offices. If you're lucky enough to live/work in the Atlanta/Lawrenceville area there will be plenty of job openings and career opportunities in the near future. Due to these layoffs and rumors of future layoffs, the culture within the offices is non-existent. Employees used to be rewarded for their hard work with fun events, but those days are long-gone. Hard work is no longer rewarded or acknowledged, instead more work is piled on top of already overloaded teams, bringing down morale even more. Upper Management has been a constant revolving door for the past 12 months with key-players either leaving or being let go which leaves their teams with no clear direction moving forward. Departments often operate in vacuums with very little collaboration, so when I new idea or project comes down from "the mother ship" each department proceeds individually without thinking of the implications it might have on other departments. This in-turn causes delays for roll-outs and wastes a large amount of company money and employees valuable time. When someone does raise concern about a project, they are usually shot down with, "Well 'they' want it done, so we have to find a way." Management should want to make it easier for employees to do their jobs, not more difficult.

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