SAS Institute Reviews

Pros

* Great Atmosphere * Great People * Work/Life Balance is the best * Constantly allowing improvement professional and personally.

Cons

There really are no cons

Pros

Great benefits, competitive compensation and great work environment.

Cons

Challenging work load and schedule depending on assignments

Pros

If you are lucky you will have a good manager else you will be always defending yourwork. There are some very good people but not enough

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.

Pros

Leader in the analytics space. They are have good perks when you are in Cary. But similar to IT company outside of the HQ.

Cons

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.

Advice to Management

Get rid of the right people. Stop over value your friends/family for strategic positions.

Pros

Easygoing atmosphere, cool area downtown, no one looking over your shoulder.

Cons

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.

Advice to Management

Check all your facts and talk to your contractors before blindly believing any negative things that are said about them by permanent staff. My peers seemed to be threatened by experience and innovative thinking. If you are going to hire contractors, be fair to them.

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.

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.

Pros

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

Cons

Undynamic company living in a dynamic industry