The Betamax of Analytics and Big Data - Pre-Sales SAS Employee Review

1.0
May 11, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

If you were there in the 80's & 90's and still there now, it's probably a fantastic place to wait out for your subsidised pension to kick in...

Cons

As a technology it is unsellable to new customers. Complex tools, specialist skills, long deployment cycles (8weeks for a cloud offering...!), archaic t&c's and legal engagement. Lack of flexibility in new opportunities - Unless a new opportunity looks, smells and tastes exactly like something that they have done before and been successful, the business packs up and walks away leaving sales high and dry. Remarkably sales management are actually blaming the sales people for leaving rather than looking at their own lack of ability and self preservation. It's just a waiting game till the leave themselves or get fired for lack of results or impact.

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Pros

Great work life balance and benefits

Cons

Upper management can be very disconnected

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Pros

Benefits: health coverage, on-site gym, childcare, healthcare center, and more. Work-life balance: predictable hours, flexibility for parents and a culture that doesn't expect you to grind 60-hour weeks.

Cons

Compensation lags the market, slow career advancement and promotions can take years. Change-resistant culture and new ideas move slowly. Leadership team manages up to just one person.

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