SAS Institute Reviews

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.

Cons

Extremely aggrassive abusive and hard work is not appreciated. Managers are fake and wont give honest reviews to you. They will send pseudo reviews to HR so that they get rid off you before probation...they might use you for 6 month and throw you once workloads reduces.

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They are old and rusty. Not agile enough to make the company still lead the industry. Open source and cloud have been eating their shares. They are behind and clients are trying to call off their subscription as SAS is expensive to maintain.

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A lot of nepotism and favoritism going on. Because if this I was excluded from some team meetings/discussions and was made to feel unwelcome. Contractors can be back-stabbed by permanent staff. I saw many good people sent to the door for no real reason.
Lack of clear reporting structure also caused issues.

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Organization is going through a massive global re-organization of their sales teams.
Executive management team is 'hush, hush' about what's going on internally, given the company is private and owned by an eccentric billionaire in North Carolina.
No strategic focus. Company is mired in legacy offerings. No cloud strategy in 2017.

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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.

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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Undynamic company living in a dynamic industry

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- 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.

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.