Sage reviews

I am Sage. I am a mediocre business software company with no real direction other than "reorganization". I am Sage. I punish employees who attempt to innovate and only allow creativity if one of the upper management staff comes up with an idea (i.e. steals it from subordinate employee and takes credit for it). I am Sage. I treat my employees as disposable resources. No one is valuable and I show no loyalty to them unless I need something. I am Sage. I believe the number of tweets my executives send will make us more successful in the US market rather than producing functional technology that customers want to buy. Please follow us. I am Sage. I will take away employee bonuses and terminate employees until our financials look good on the books and then turn a blind eye to how we have destroyed the internal structure and morale of our company. Don't ask how we are going to meet our numbers next year. I am Sage. I believe the closeness of the Atlanta airport is an amenity for my employees. (Yes I think staff truly believes that). Potential employees, take some time to sort the reviews on this site by Date and not Popular at the top right hand side of the first page. You will see this company's ratings are in a nosedive and have been for a while. Sage recognizes this and is in a panic which is demonstrated by their "planting" of reviews by upper management and Human Resources on this site. Any time you see terms/ phrases like "onboarding process" "being a change agent" or "Sound Leadership" make note these reviews are planted to combat the truthful reviews from employees. This behavior is an exact example of how their management strategy has gone wrong. They feel the need to spend more time spreading misleading information on this site to cover up real problems than improving on what's wrong in the daily workings of the company. This is not surprising because after some reflection on some of the most recent reviews Sage would have to admit that the root of most of their problems is a stagnant and ineffective leadership team who make bad decisions and have an inability to manage and motivate their teams.

Avoid this company, It is NOT worth it. Sage is not a technology company. Imagine used car salesman trying to break into “cloud business”. This is the mentality and work culture in Sage. The products are one of the big weaknesses. Sage has no true cloud products. Rebranding desktop products as “cloud” and charging more is not a strategy. Using support teams to push sales does not make sense. Your customers paid extra for the support not for talking to salespeople. Truly toxic culture. Bullying and harassment. Senior leaders with a history of verbal and emotional harassment are still in the business. HR is helpless when you bring those issues to them. They will advise you to drop it in fear of retaliation from the leaders. Old boys club. It is difficult to understand how the company is performing. CFO is bragging to investors about having a good quarter when in fact the business did not hit the target. Constant employee churn on every level. CEO being fired, CMO left, CIO left, CPO left, many VPs and MDs left (50+). The company went through five managing directors in the UK over the last two years. Some teams disappeared completely, when every member left. Sage has one of the lowest rankings on Glassdoor for the “tech” company. There are good reasons why: Unfair. Every six months employees are subject to “bell curve” reviews. Every team has to find 20% members who ‘underperformed’. You may achieve all your personal goals and objectives but will be deemed as ‘underperforming’ by your manager. Managers have to meet the quota. 
 Won’t pay your contractual bonus. CFO didn’t like the mid-year results and unilaterally decided that Sage won’t pay any bonus for that period. The company didn’t pay bonuses in the last two years. The years when the bonuses were paid, you will get usually a fraction of the bonus anyway. The payout will be tied out to your bell curve rating, company performance, country performance etc. Dishonest. Do not believe positive reviews on the glass door. Sage employees are incentivised to post positive reviews for perks. Do not believe Sage HR response on the Glass Door either. Despite what HR claims on Glassdoor, there has been a hiring freeze. This was recently confirmed in public by Sage CMO during one of all hands meetings.
 Greedy. Just google independent review of Sage CEO and CFO salary pay. It is the highest in the industry while the business is not achieving its targets. Independent watchdog PIRC criticised Sage. Constant cuts. No technology investment, travel freeze (18 months in a row), training freeze, no team outings or team lunches. Everything is being cut except CEO and CFO compensation. 
 Chaotic. Sage calls themselves matrix type organisation, but this is far from the truth. What you get is organisational chaos, multiple people doing the same job and teams with overlapping responsibilities. It results in the inability to agree on anything, missing deadlines and stressful work environment. Nepotism. Senior managers prefer to hire colleagues from previous companies. If you are offered a job do your research on LinkedIn around the prospective boss and the new team. Extremely Slow. It takes weeks/months to get a company laptop or mobile phone. New people are hired but can't do any work in the first weeks. Sage fails to procure a laptop for them. It takes weeks to get access to employees portal or to access your payslips online. No scope for growth. No progression or career path. You were hired to do one job only, and that’s it. No strategy, all that matters are this week sales targets. JFDI mentality among management.