Was once a great place to work... the work is now sapping - Associate Architect SAP Employee Review

2.0
Apr 2, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

- Good work/life balance - Started out as a fun atmosphere to work - Not too much pressure to deliver on deadlines (at least in our group) - Free lunch and snacks

Cons

- Knee jerk reactions by management when their teams are on focus - Old bureaucratic way of thinking. - Focus on their proprietary technologies like ABAP and an almost vehement opposition of open source software (BOBJ acquisition is changing a few things here) - Management does not trust what the developers and technology groups are doing. This results in too many governance organizations and it takes forever to make decisions. - You will find quite a number of architects who actually turn out to be architecture astronauts.

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5.0
Jun 8, 2026
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Pros

Great benefits, full of opportunities to learn and support.

Cons

Rounds of layoffs due to changes in tech direction. Plan accordingly and stay flexible!

4.0
May 29, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

I really liked my role at SAP. After being a cloud Customer Success Manager supporting strategic clients for several years, I moved into a group doing digital customer outreach including producing newsletters, release enablement, webcasts, documentation, event registrations, etc. Salary and bonuses were good, no complaints there.

Cons

No real cons for the job that I was in, except that our group was eliminated by the corporate restructuring and reduction in workforce in North America in 2025. I would have loved to stay but unfortunately we probably showed up on a restructuring spreadsheet somewhere and it was determined that our services were no longer needed. We off-boarded most of our work to other existing employees (who already had full time jobs), which felt unfair to them, but that is how it shook out.

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