Sage reviews

3.8

66% would recommend to a friend

(663 total reviews)

Blaise R. Simqu

70% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

Sage has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 663 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 Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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663 reviews
3.0
Jul 24, 2018

A friendly place to work

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Pros

Friendly company culture, salary bonus

Cons

Behind the pace in scholarly communication

2.0
Jul 22, 2018

Good company benefits but very cliquey environment

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Pros

Good annual bonus and company benefits. People are civil and there are a handful of very nice and hardworking individual

Cons

Management in Editorial is too young with no real people management experience. The environment is very cliquey The only way for career progression is if someone goes on maternity leave or if you work like a slave. Wanting to be great at your job is not enough to get rewarded, you have to constantly take on lots of stuff outside your normal work and work additional hours all the time to be considered for promotion. If you don't do that then good luck maybe you will get promoted in 10 years. My weekly one to one was my line manager asking the same generic questions from a form that she was given to. On top of that that was the only time she would interact with me the rest of the time she would avoid me and only say hello when there was people around and she was forced not to ignore me. There is no training whatsover in Editorial. I was left on my own devices to figure out how to do my job. No one talks to knew staffs and nobody care about welcoming them and wanting them to feel part of a team. Because management is young they don't know how to support staff or what to do when their staff is being bullied. They also don't know how to provide training but every time you ask for training in an area they would ask to ask some else or to organise that yourself. The Editorial department is the worst I've worked in. Felt isolated and not appreciated and was bullied at several occasions. All the other departments are fine. Just don't work there if you want to work in Editorial.

5.0
Jul 19, 2018

Yep, I think you should work here.

Recommend
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Pros

1) Great benefits. I know this is obvious to many, but it's worth mentioning that when you only pay $55 per paycheck for good low-deductible coverage for your whole family (!), it's effectively the same as making many thousands of dollars more. And everyone gets this care. It's great. HR is pretty proactive and helpful. 2) Work culture really reinforces that we do meaningful work at SAGE: I think we do feel that we're supporting research and education well and that we're good partners to science, academia, libraries, educators, etc. 3) Relative to your specific job (i.e. at SAGE vs. at other companies) you will enjoy a lot of autonomy. The culture broadly respects the expertise that each department cultivates. 4) Grounded and supportive managers who are less of a demand on you than a resource you can trust for help.

Cons

1) In any department there is a lot of variation day to day; few jobs at SAGE are rigidly defined and your projects will vary depending on what we're publishing and our priorities. This can mean that the workload is sometimes very heavy. (Occasionally, it can also be light.) 2) I worry that some of the pros may be specific to my area (Editorial/Publishing, which is in some ways the core of the business). I try to engage often with other departments but it's hard to say if they always feel like their job is as healthy. 3) My personal goals for my own job description are always kind of tantalizingly out of reach. Which hurts because my bonus pay is tied directly to them.

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