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1.0
Jun 11, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

None right now, which is so sad as it used to be great

Cons

Sage for the past year and a half have rarely promoted anyone, so now face challenges of people not being happy with working their socks off with no reward. Their new strategy is to promote people with £0 financial incentive and acting as if it’s a great thing and we should be so proud! Quite frankly we’ve all lost any sense of motivation and love for the job as it’s a constant grind with no reward. WE ARE NOT WORKING FOR FREE

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Sage Response
2y
Thank you for your feedback. We are sorry to read that you are not feeling very positive about working at Sage at the moment. The wellbeing of our colleagues is very important to us and although we want to empower our colleagues to take on responsibilities that will help them grow in their careers; we don’t want them to feel overwhelmed by their workload. Please speak to your manager about your concerns to ensure that your work/life balance is being maintained at all times. Also, we’d like to point out that given that recognition is one of the pillars underpinning our high-performance culture, please be assured that good performance shall not go unacknowledged. We are here to support you to thrive so please keep speaking with us so that we can continue in the right direction to ensure this.

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2.0
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Pros

was hired as remote and get to have that honored, but have been openly told no career progression because of remote status. decent pay

Cons

Leadership instability: Seven manager changes during my relatively short tenure. Unrealistic targets: A sales quota set at 1,100% growth (not a typo). Slow product development: Getting anything actioned on the product side takes far too long. Product management turnover: Three product manager changes, resulting in no meaningful deliverables in over three years. Misaligned hiring priorities: Greater emphasis on DEI optics than on hiring people positioned to drive growth. Internal vs. customer focus: More energy spent on internal events than on product enhancements. Lack of accountability (the biggest issue): No one takes ownership. Responsibility gets passed around constantly — for example, client cancellations going unprocessed because they impact someone's numbers. Managers have openly encouraged pushing the work onto someone else rather than handling it.

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Sage Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. We’re sorry to hear about the challenges you’ve described around leadership continuity, targets, growth, and ways of working. We recognise the impact that stability, clear accountability, and achievable goals can have on the day-to-day experience of our colleagues, particularly within sales and customer-facing roles. We shall share your feedback with leaders for their visibility as we continue to evolve how we support our teams to truly thrive at work. If you have any additional insights to share, please leave us more feedback via our internal Always Listening forum or through your manager. Thank you again for sharing your perspective.
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