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    SAS Institute Reviews

    Updated 20 October, 2017
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    • If you're in an oncall rotation your work/life balance will suffer (in 13 reviews)

    • little room for technical advancement outside r&d (in 20 reviews)

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    1. "Manager"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Toronto, ON
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Toronto, ON
      Recommends
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at SAS Institute full-time (More than 8 years)

      Pros

      Great employee programs, wonderful place for work-life balance and to raise a family

      Cons

      Undynamic company living in a dynamic industry

    2. "Great Place To Work - Need to Increase Sales for more Opportunities"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I worked at SAS Institute full-time

      Pros

      Great place to work, smart people. and good-work life balance

      Cons

      Sales in terms of percentage growth to much slower compared to industry in the Analytics space.

      Need a multi-tenant cloud strategy - and don't be the Analytics leader in "Name" only, go out and get Market share

      Need a Partner Strategy - without partners, you don't have enough feet on the ground talking about SAS.

      Advice to Management

      Need to have a comprehensive multi-tenant cloud strategy, with a strong Partner ecosystem making SAS applications for everyone to use.

    3. Helpful (1)

      "Slowly Declining"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Doesn't Recommend
      Negative Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I worked at SAS Institute full-time

      Pros

      Pretty good benefits/compensation and some nice people.

      Cons

      Unfortunately, they have been slow to innovate and their marketing has been very poor so they are adding very few new customers. They are relying on a handful of big companies to keep the revenue coming in and even those companies are starting to look around. As a result, it's not a great place to work.

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    4. "SAS Canada"

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      Current Employee - Account Executive in Toronto, ON
      Current Employee - Account Executive in Toronto, ON
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook

      Pros

      - Compensation :)
      - Employee Benefits
      - Work/Life Balance
      Come to work with a good attitude, work hard for what you want, and it will be rewarded to you.

      Cons

      For years SAS has relied on the strength of its product as the main driver of its brand. This was a weakness, in my mind. However, I do see this changing. A great example of this is our partnership with the Canadian Olympic Committee. That should increase awareness of SAS in the Canadian market.

      Advice to Management

      I came here with high hopes and after a number of years I am still happy to be here. Keep it up!

    5. Helpful (3)

      "Great company....needs to focus"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Toronto, ON
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Toronto, ON
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at SAS Institute full-time (More than 5 years)

      Pros

      - amazing culture with strong focus on employees. Senior leadership absolutely committed to people.
      - outstanding technology
      - smart, dedicated, passionate people who want to make a difference
      - open environment

      Cons

      - there is an inflection point happening in the analytics space where many of the largest clients are evaluating core technology and creating their own solutions based on open source technology. This is to avoid costly licensing fees and to accelerate time to benefit (given that SAS technology is notoriously complex to deploy). The company is late recognizing and responding to this change, and in many cases has seen the combination of open source and cloud delivered solutions pass it by.

      Advice to Management

      Focus. There are too many solutions in the portfolio that are not ready for prime time. Pick the solutions you want to lead / dominate, put the resources and investment dollars behind those and redeploy away from niche solutions.

    6. Helpful (1)

      "Good culture, great people but product develepment not focused enough"

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      Former Employee - Technical Consultant in Toronto, ON
      Former Employee - Technical Consultant in Toronto, ON
      Doesn't Recommend
      Negative Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at SAS Institute (More than 10 years)

      Pros

      Great people good benefits, flexible work arrangements (although a home office policy is missing). Customer facing staff deeply cares about the clients' success.

      Cons

      No defined career paths. Management changed constantly. No clear directions for the consulting practice. Technology gets a bit long in the tooth, SAS takes way too long to get new products to the market, which at the beginning are often quite buggy.

      Advice to Management

      Focus your product strategy and try to get ahead of the Open Source companies that build on the Hadoop stack of products. There is nothing Open Source Spark can't do as well as a costly SAS Grid installation. The value-add needs to come from the business know-how build into the solutions as in the CI space. That is also were you can justify the price tag for your services.

    7. "SAS Canada"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Doesn't Recommend
      Negative Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I have been working at SAS Institute full-time

      Pros

      The people in this company are great. This is a sales driven organization so expect to meet your sales targets. Most business units are flexible in terms of work/life balance. Great benefits.

      Cons

      Software is expensive and hard to implement in the smb market. The technology is there but it's hindered by it's lack of flexibility and there other solutions that cheaper and in some case better. Services to stand solution are costly.

      Advice to Management

      Better SMB-Go-To-Market needs to be in place. It would be helpful to define a career path at the beginning of the relationship.

    8. "Aren't many places better, especially for women"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends

      I worked at SAS Institute full-time

      Pros

      Great company perqs, great people, terrific team environment, and a company that applauds you taking on new challenges and new roles. They focus on their clients almost as well as their people.

      Cons

      Work environment in many offices is very open concept leaving little personal space. There really isn't anything worse than that to comment about!

      Advice to Management

      Keep doing what you are doing for your people. You have created an environment that makes people proud to say "I work for SAS".

    9. "Consultant"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook

      I have been working at SAS Institute full-time

      Pros

      Great work env, great benefits, work life balance, interesting work, great people

      Cons

      Some members of upper management don't seem to understand or appreciate the SAS Culture and hence are not protecting it

      Advice to Management

      Keep SAS culture alive, its one of its greatest assets

    10. Helpful (3)

      "Stuck in the past"

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      Former Employee - Sales Associate in Toronto, ON
      Former Employee - Sales Associate in Toronto, ON
      Doesn't Recommend
      Neutral Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at SAS Institute full-time (More than 5 years)

      Pros

      Work life balance and lots of superficial benefits. Has potential with amazing technology and cutting edge

      Cons

      Stuck in the past with antiquated delivery methods of data. Visualizations getting better but very late to the game. A lot more nimble companies are leap frogging SAS in user experience and reliability. Costs are stuck in old model that doesn't work in todays market.

      Advice to Management

      Focus on listening to customers more and revamp entire sales approach. Beacon Accounts don't work.

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