SAP Employee Reviews about "upper management"

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Mid and upper level management didn't know how to sell my group's services and sales are drying up.

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My manager was completely incompetent often pitting employees against each other and literally asking an employee to 'choose who to throw off a boat' between two interns in order to determine which would get the full-time offer. All the great developers are at risk of leaving due to this manager's incompetence. I highly highly recommend staying away from the Utilities team in the Montreal office. I was an intern who was offered a full-time position, I decided to reject that offer and got fired on the spot because of it, with my manager stating I wasn't a team player since I didn't want to sign on full time at a very low salary. Another employee was offered another job within SAP and the manager threatened this employee that because he was looking elsewhere for another job, that if he decided to stay, 'we will have problems'. This is who the manager is, he is vindictive and spiteful. The manager says things are 'team decisions' when they are obviously not and refuses to take responsibility for his own actions. ABAP is ancient technology and doesn't help you anywhere else except for SAP. The move to cloud development has been painfully slow with architects and upper management completely lost leading to SAP being completely behind in the cloud. Several top executives (Robert Enslin, Bernd Leukert, Bjoern Goerke) have left the company with another 4400 employees being laid off. The salary is really low compared to the rest of Montreal despite what it says here on Glassdoor. However, the intern salary is pretty good. Architects for java projects don't even know java or take the time to learn it, leading to a complete loss of direction and junior devs designing the entire project on their own. You will be promised and shown many cool things such as work from home, and Xbox, but if you actually use them you will be given a hard time. All the important work is in Germany with little attention given to the Montreal office. If you're young, want to move up the ladder, and be exposed to cool new technologies, avoid at all costs. If you're interviewing for the utilities team in Montreal, RUN!

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Upper Management is disconnected and the frequency of introduction of new products is far too high.

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Consultants are constantly told that SAP is a software company even though more than 50% of sales comes from services. Policies are constantly tightened and tweaked to squeeze every penny from consultants who are making less than 20% of the hourly charged. Upper management is so tight with money that all consultants are overworked and more than 50% of incoming work gets fielded by partners.

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upper management can get hooked on emerging technologies and try to push for new things that do not necessarily improve our workflows. Worst case scenario, they will completely change out our tools every few years. Progression can also be slow compared to other companies. People tend to stay in their positions for quite a while, so vacancies will tend to be in other departments. Frankly I consider this to be a plus, but I understand some people dream of climbing the corporate ladder, so I placed it here.

Cons

- compensation is very poor for the standards of Bay area - No learning from work after few months - Tech stack is still old - Managers are not clear about the goals and often keep repeating whatever the upper management says - every team has a resource crunch always - Food from foccacia sucks (successfactors SSF)

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Upper management is inscrutable and it's impossible to predict where things are headed with any division or team.

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Some upper management turmoil in the 1+ years that I've been year but it might be due to the pandemic and things like that. I seriously can't think of any negatives so far.