Pros
- Free Dinner - Decent benefits (although most companies offer the same or better) - Good people, with some great talent - Opportunity/Requirement of Travel - Flexi-time available (depending on assigned work) To be honest, this is a good place to start your working life (graduate), perfect for an intern. SAP is a big name after all. It's easy at the beginning, and you'll gain good experience desirable in any job - soft skills as well as technical. You can see this reading the 5 star reviews of anyone that has worked here in Dublin for 'less than a year'. It's important that there is an exit plan though, because you WILL be ground down eventually, becoming a transparent shell of the person that you used to be, sitting in an office at 11pm on a Friday night, reminiscing with a sad smile on good times with people you used to know.
Cons
I can only speak of the COE in Dublin, I do not want to paint every department in every country with the same brush. This in mind, here it goes. - Base salary is woeful. We are cheap labour, but 'flexible'. So hire where it's cheap, and send you off to do the same job elsewhere, for a fraction of the cost... In fairness, well spotted. - Yearly increases may allow you to treat yourself to a slightly more expensive take-away (at 11.45pm, on a Friday night, on your own in the house (if you can afford a house)). - Enough has been said about work-life balance, and steps are being actively taken to make it worse. The phrase 'Things can only get better' has been proven wrong on so many occasions, I simply expect the worst. - Last minute travel requests, to places that do not appear on any 'Top 10,000 places to visit before you die' lists, on any website. - Blatant lies, impossible promises. - Unqualified and out of touch Middle Management... It's a mess. You are a number, on an Excel sheet, that someone will look at and say, 'Which number will we put in this place next week?... Actually, who cares?' This is no longer about ability (I assume it may have been once, many Springs ago...) - 'More Graduates... We need more graduates!!' You'd need a plane to get over that knowledge gap... - No training... 'Learn on the job'... Nonsense, it's embarrassing and unprofessional... - The travel. You will see many lovely offices. Big offices, small offices, offices on the 13th floor, offices in the basement.