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Good perks and a relaxed culture, at the expense of boring work

Software Developer
Former Employee
Worked at SAP for 2 years
September 3, 2013
Bengaluru, Karnataka
3.0
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Very relaxed work culture. Work from home and generous leave policy. Approachable and friendly managers. No micromanagement. Free food & shuttle facility. Could be financially rewarding once strong expertise in SAP related technologies is obtained.

Cons

Work (ABAP) is mind-numbingly boring! The majority of the work deals with the maintenance of legacy code written in a legacy language. You will spend 90% of your time in maintenance, fixing silly bugs in poorly written code handed over to you, rather than developing serious features.

The proprietary development and testing tools used here are terrible compared to the open-source alternatives available.

The pace of work is slow.

The quality of people is not great (although there are exceptions); a lot of people know just enough for their day-to-day work. This can be rephrased as a lack of strong engineering culture.

Staying too long with ABAP can make you virtually skill-less and unemployable as a developer outside the SAP domain. This is mainly due to the intellectual stagnation one undergoes working with ABAP.

All in all, this company is far from ideal if you are a passionate technologist. But if you like to settle into a low-pressure job while drawing a reasonable salary and decent perks, this seems to be the perfect place.

Advice to Management

Please phase out ABAP as early as possible. It's doing SAP more harm than good. Almost all of the cons I listed above are a direct result of using ABAP.

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