Sage reviews

3.6

64% would recommend to a friend

(5,284 total reviews)
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Steve Hare

71% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

Sage has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 5,284 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Sage employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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3.0
Jun 29, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Pay was decent. Work was easy. Some really nice people on the team. Similar pros to government work.

Cons

A lot of work was silly; tasks for tasks' sake that had no purpose or benefit. In my group, management is distant and unaware of what happens, and had passed on responsibility to a consultant, whose main focus was selling more projects to the company, regardless of need or benefit. Lots of "pie in the sky" plans to do a million things, but little focus on the basics. The tendency to attempt too many things leads to nothing being done particularly well. Too many meetings. Every meeting starts 5 minutes late because the previous one ran over. No one leads meetings, and there is rarely an agenda or emailed follow-up. If you're a motivated person who likes to do good work that benefits people, you may find it frustrating.

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Sage Response
5y
Thanks for this feedback. As a former colleague, I think you would appreciate the shifts we have made to embracing a spirit of experimenting and iterating in the way we work, not being afraid to fail, and being okay that everything is not perfect the first time around. This way of working could be scary for some but it guarantees there's never a dull moment, we can have fun exploring, and we can continue to delight our customers with innovative solutions.
3.0
Feb 23, 2021

Disappointed but not Surprised

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

It's a "family" environment. They have lots of activities that you can get involved in. They took amazing care of their colleagues during COVID with 100% remote working. The company ensured that colleagues received their bonuses at the end of 2020. You will work with a great bunch of people. The people and the work life balance are the best parts of working at Sage.

Cons

In some areas, the company maintains an almost obstinate lack of sophistication and inefficiency -- internal systems and procedures, how information flows or doesn't flow, the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing. Maybe all companies are like that. Promotional opportunities are not great. Diversity efforts fall flat too. A lot of talk but very little by way of real results. They say "there is a plan or strategy." But it has yet to be articulated in any real way. They've created all flavors of interests groups, which are great for pictures on social media. But when it comes to actually hiring at the highest level of leadership, we're told that this or that non-diverse candidate was "the most qualified." No examples of what accomplishments back that up. We are to trust that diverse candidates (if there were any) were just not good enough. That thinking is not new. I'm skeptical that we'll see real change when leaders embrace performative activities like painting mailboxes black for Black History Month or inclusive books clubs that are not very inclusive.

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Sage Response
5y
It's really refreshing to hear your feedback - not just your positive feedback but also speaking up for the areas where you think we have opportunities to do better, namely when it comes to diversity, inclusion and equity. We agree, we have not always been consistent or bold enough with our DEI strategy, but we assure you with our new leadership and growing team, we are taking a fresh new look at what we are doing, not doing, and where and how we can improve to make the most impact as quickly as possible while also ensuring long lasting, sustainable change. We encourage you to continue giving us your feedback and suggestions through our internal channels as well as challenge you to champion the change you want to see inside and outside of Sage.
1.0
Dec 31, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

They offer healthcare but not a Cadillac plan

Cons

Horrible management at the glass palace in the UK

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