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Overall, a good company, but it's missing agility

Software Developer
Current Employee
Has worked at SAP for 2 years
April 27, 2016
Palo Alto, California
4.0
RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

The company culture is great. There's no hierarchical thinking in dev orgs. A lot of new stuff is happening. Work-life balance is great.

Cons

The company overall could be less sales-oriented and more product-oriented.

There's a common lack of skill set and technical expertise, even in the innovation areas. A lot of lateral transfers lead to positions that don't fit employees' skill sets. They also call SQL developers backend developers and surprisingly get away with it.

Advice to Management

We need more people in the middle that actually understand technology.

We need a clearer product portfolio and consistent naming.

More partnerships with other companies instead of reinventing the wheel.

We need to invest more to develop our technical community and ecosystem.

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