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Stable Job, Toxic Politics

Senior Software QA Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at SAP for 2 years
December 16, 2017
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
3.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Stability, a reasonable salary, and an indoor kitchen.

Cons

Rotten inter-relationships and low development quality. SAP removed QA from the cycle, and nobody cares about quality. A large portion of the devs are either students, newly graduated, or temporary (6-month temp with one renewal). The veterans have been there for millennia and have not evolved professionally, so the development quality is horrible. Add this to the "quality within" strategy, where there is no professional QA in the cycle (the devs are responsible for quality, a sad joke), and you get a disaster. The rule of thumb says: "If it's bad enough, we will hear about it sooner or later from the customers."

The other issue is that it's a company where people want to keep their place at any cost and will do anything for it, including preparing "kill lists" on co-workers, documenting any minor screw-up of their "friends," and holding onto important technical knowledge just to remain a key element (passwords, accounts, knowledge of configurations, etc.). Politics is everything from the scrum masters level and up... just rotten...

Advice to Management

Read the above... but everybody knows that nothing will be done by the management, so...

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