SAP

• Stability (you will hardly be fired)

• Opportunity to work on international projects

• Opportunity to improve your communication skills

• Opportunity to learn/improve a specific language

• You can always try different roles within SAP, as long as you align this with your direct manager. For example, a software developer can try a Product Owner role on a small project and shift their career toward this new role.

Overall, SAP is a good company, especially for younger people such as junior or mid-level developers. However, after a few years, you may feel stuck.

• Very slow career progression.

• Salary is fairly good, but far below market value.

• Too many company-related technologies will slow down your learning process.

• You may not be able to work with your desired technologies.

• Far too many processes that slow everything down.

• Stability makes people kind of lazy. Since they know they won't be fired by just doing the bare minimum, they won't try to push themselves.

• The company talks big about diversity and inclusion, but it is mostly about lower-tier employees. You won't see this at higher levels, such as management or the board.

• SAP is still struggling to establish a good work environment for remote employees because it focuses too much on a hybrid environment.

• Work-life balance can be an issue depending on the team you are working on, such as working during weekends.

There are two main things that could go a long way and impact everything else:

• Improve the salary and provide more frequent rewards.
• Make the career progression more flexible and faster, instead of relying on many processes and a lot of time for things to happen, such as waiting three to five years for a simple promotion.