A good company gone bad. - Software Engineer Sage Employee Review

2.0
Dec 22, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

• salary/ wages are reasonable/ above average. • Colleagues I work with directly are friendly/ good to work with. • Flexible working conditions i.e. work from home • "Seemingly" trying to resolve internal issues.

Cons

• Under-staffed, under resourced and unreasonable project completion times causing pressures from "SLT" (so-called senior leadership team) that trickles down. This results in a stressful environment. • Focuses on quantity and not quality in the way of projects/ products. • Confused agenda and strategy. • Self-interest/ blame culture - misaligned priorities (in departments and management) mean everyone is looking out for themselves. • Time- wasting (redundant/ irrelevant meetings, admin tasks that are not meaningful) and bureaucracy (segregation in departments/ services not located locally) adds to difficulty in being productive or effective.

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Sage Response
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We really appreciate you taking the time to write a review and from your response we can see that you genuinely care. As you stated, you are a long-time Sage colleague, so thank you for your commitment. I am sorry that you don’t feel the culture change is for the better. We are actively finding new and improved ways to make changes for the better and many of these are a direct result of our colleagues’ feedback thru our various internal channels one of which is the pulse survey.

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Pros

Some of the people are genuinely rockstars in their crafts. The insurance is top notch and PTO is generous.

Cons

Company culture and morale are awful. The salaries are low, policies are dated and not equitable, product and internal tech is dated. Rapid changes due to poor leadership and frequent turnover. Leadership does not seem to possess the ability to pivot once decisions have been made, even if the decision was the wrong one. Company personality is archaic and as far away from forward-thinking as possible.

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