SAS Institute Reviews
Updated Oct 21, 2019
"The work - life balance is great" (in 304 reviews)
"Great benefits, competitive compensation and great work environment" (in 109 reviews)
"Cary, NC is not that exciting of a town" (in 35 reviews)
"Not every manager or division head follows the idea of work/life balance" (in 24 reviews)
"Best company I have ever worked for"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at SAS Institute full-time for more than 3 years
Pros
* Great Atmosphere * Great People * Work/Life Balance is the best * Constantly allowing improvement professional and personally.
Cons
There really are no cons
SAS Institute2019-04-22- Helpful (4)
"Get in and GET OUT"
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Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookNo opinion of CEOI have been working at SAS Institute full-time for more than a year
Pros
Best Advice: Get In, Get Experience, and GET OUT. Work From Home Often Online Courses To Grow Career - though not easy to fit into your schedule Office Perks Like On Site Gym And Cafe Compensation Can Be Nice, Depending On Your Popularity
Cons
Everyone is the enemy. Customers, project managers, team leads - EVERYONE is constantly squeezing as much as possible out of you, non-stop. You can also be stuck with a horrible customer for YEARS with no hope of ever changing projects. And when you're not feeling the squeeze of project deadlines, it means you're on the bench and in fear of being perceived as "useless". If you're on the bench, there is absolutely no... effort put into getting you a project you would want, and you're expected to SEEK out potential work by sweet talking project managers, and getting your name out there internally. You have a job, but somehow you still have to job hunt? There is a lot of talk about "teamwork" but barely any real world execution. Aside from a small number leadership and senior level staff having their cliques, the rest of us are workhorses, without any real sense of team or family. Everyone is out to get out of you AS MUCH as possible, and that is the bottom line. Your stress levels, work-life balance, or career interests are irrelevant. And the corporate structure is changing rapidly in a very negative way as the company continues to globalize.
Show MoreAdvice to Management
Foster a REAL team environment instead of just preaching one, encourage every employee to grow, provide ample opportunity to maintain a positive work-life balance, and above all else find a way to manage customer expectations better. Too often customer anger and frustrations are funneled DIRECTLY to the consultants via PM and TL, when they don't need to be.
SAS Institute2019-10-07 "If work-life balance is what you're looking for..."
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at SAS Institute full-time for more than 5 years
Pros
Work-life balance, great benefit and compensation. People are nice to work with.
Cons
Not much opportunity to grow especially if you're on a technical position in a local office.
SAS Institute2019-06-04- Helpful (1)
"Great company"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at SAS Institute full-time for more than a year
Pros
Great benefits, competitive compensation and great work environment.
Cons
Challenging work load and schedule depending on assignments
SAS Institute2019-02-20 - Helpful (7)
"Watch out"
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookI worked at SAS Institute part-time
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.
SAS Institute2018-05-01 - Helpful (7)
"Account Manager"
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at SAS Institute full-time for more than 3 years
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.
SAS Institute2018-01-07 - Helpful (7)
"Disappointed"
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Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookNo opinion of CEOI worked at SAS Institute full-time for more than a year
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.
SAS Institute2017-12-13 - Helpful (3)
"2017 - Global Re-org Year"
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDisapproves of CEOI worked at SAS Institute full-time
Pros
Solid compensation package and benefits Flexible working environment (work at the office or from home)
Cons
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.
SAS Institute2017-10-28 "Great Place To Work - Need to Increase Sales for more Opportunities"
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RecommendsNeutral OutlookNo opinion of CEOI worked at SAS Institute full-time
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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.
SAS Institute2017-05-08- Helpful (3)
"Slowly Declining"
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDisapproves of CEOI worked at SAS Institute full-time
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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.
SAS Institute2017-05-02