Taro Logo

An awkwardly goofy but nice, enormous company

Software Architect
Current Employee
Has worked at SAP for 2 years
August 3, 2020
5.0
RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

SAP is home to several software mega-projects, and it's rare you get a chance to work at this scale in software. Everyone is nice beyond belief and extremely competent in their different areas. Developing software for mega-projects is an unsolved problem, and you get to work on it with great people.

Cons

It's very difficult to develop software at this scale. It's very difficult to manage at this scale.

Teams can function agilely at a small scale, but it can take a long time for large-scale features that span hundreds of teams to solidify into action. Small companies can't dream of taking on problems of this sort, but at the same time, everything you learned at a small company has to be reinvented.

Advice to Management

Management should acknowledge the grand challenge more openly. With products that have been under continuous development for decades, we literally have multiple generational objectives. Please don't change the objective with each new upper management change.

Was this helpful?

SAP Interview Experiences