Good perks and a relaxed culture, at the expense of boring work. - Software Developer SAP Employee Review

3.0
Sep 3, 2013
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Pros

* Very relaxed work culture. * Work from home and generous leave policy. * Approachable and friendly managers. * No micromanagement. * Free food & shuttle facility. * Could be financially rewarding once strong expertise in SAP related technologies is obtained.

Cons

* Work (ABAP) is mind numbingly boring! Majority of the work deals with the maintenance of legacy code written in a legacy language. You will spend 90% of your time in maintenance, fixing silly bugs in poorly written code handed over to you, rather than develop serious features. * The proprietary development and testing tools used here are terrible compared to the open source alternatives available. * Slow pace of work. * Quality of people is not great (although there are exceptions); a lot of people know just enough for their day to day work. This can be rephrased as the lack of a strong engineering culture. * Staying too long with ABAP can make you virtually skill less and unemployable as a developer outside the SAP domain. This is mainly due to the intellectual stagnation one undergoes working with ABAP. All in all, this company is far from ideal if you are a passionate technologist, but if you like to settle into a low pressure job while drawing a reasonable salary and decent perks, this seems to be the perfect place.

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5.0
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Pros

Great benefits, full of opportunities to learn and support.

Cons

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4.0
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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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