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Company In Decline

Senior Software Developer
Current Employee
Has worked at SAP for 9 years
March 24, 2022
1.0
Neutral OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Moved towards modern technologies and architectures.

Benefits on par with the job market.

Large corporate users and customer base.

Cons

Work-life balance is a thing of the past.

Pay is half of market rates.

Development senior leadership is overly frugal and inexperienced. They set unrealistic goals with no objective reasoning and then blame/punish the productive roles for failing to meet them.

Development senior leadership is only concerned with getting something on the product listing, with no regard for quality or product viability.

Development senior leadership greenlights projects that aren’t ready and short-circuits their own product lifecycle processes, leading to serious delays from research.

Development senior leadership is completely inflexible about product release dates for literally no reason other than to get products listed as fast as possible, leading to the release of unusable software.

All members of leadership constantly make bad decisions for short-term gains because they are using their roles as a springboard into higher leadership and leave before they face any consequences.

Product Managers have their own reporting line, so they have completely different goals and success criteria not aligned with their development teams.

Product Managers have no Scrum training nor experience, and don't come to Scrum ceremonies.

Development managers, who are brand new to the company, think senior developers are inept because they haven’t quit already. They don’t consult them on major decisions and then blame them when everything backfires.

Development managers have no B2B nor enterprise software experience and fail to recognize the inherent complexity.

Advice to Management

Pay better and support work/life balance.

Actually talk to senior technical staff about team dynamics and technical decisions.

Involve technical staff with interviews for people who will be on their own team.

End the practice of hiring new graduates just to save money.

Additional Ratings

Work/Life Balance
1.0
Culture and Values
1.0
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
5.0
Career Opportunities
2.0
Compensation and Benefits
1.0
Senior Management
1.0

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