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Worked with great people on interesting projects, but frustrated by management decisions and interteam conflicts

Senior Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at SAP for less than 1 year
December 14, 2011
La Crosse, Wisconsin
3.0
Doesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Lots of friendly and competent people to work with.

There are some interesting technical problems to solve (if you can get on one of those projects).

The benefits are good.

Cons

Poor/hostile relations between teams on separate sites.

Too much reinventing the wheel: groups have no idea what tools, libraries, or functionality have already been written in-house.

Long process for using OSS (GPL not allowed) in projects.

Management does whatever it thinks best without asking employees.

Management is trying to do more with less employees, and work-life balance suffers.

Management jerks teams around. They give you a project, then transfer it away, then assign another, and then transfer it away. That does wonders for morale.

Everything moves very slowly. Adoption of new technology and methodology is years behind.

Advice to Management

Get the engineering org to catalog existing functionality. It isn't good when a group is OEMing a competitor's solution when there is an in-house one they don't even know exists.

Address morale problems.

Move the organization toward quicker technology adoption and allow time for employee innovation.

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