SAP

• Above average social benefits package.
• Not the worst place to be when it comes to stress levels.

Working Environment:

• Almost absolute lack of management empathy.
• No feedback is being given from managers. Goals and expectations toward employees are either expressed in a vague manner or not at all.
• It's not uncommon for L1 managers to have zero technical competences and/or absolutely no leadership skills. As a result, new hires unknowingly end up playing a game of "Russian roulette" with their careers.
• Most of the time, L1 managers are in pursuit of expanding their teams with no real reasoning from a business point of view and with no plan on how to onboard and grow over time the new hires.

Workplace:

• A total of four offices within the city of Sofia, all of which offer a different environment and employee benefits, making it quite unfair for some.
• Some of the office buildings are pretty much impossible to go to – no public transport, a handful of parking places, etc.
• With the growing number of employees and poor planning, offices are now "crowded." This makes it practically impossible to accommodate new hires or even book a meeting room.

Products:

• Plenty of politics and unfair internal competition within the company.
• Future vision and company strategy are just a bunch of buzzwords – there's a pressing need for internal restructuring, laying off the poor performing employees in the process.
• TTM, TCO, and ROI are just terrible. It's not uncommon for products to spend years in the making before being ditched without ever "going live" due to their business irrelevance.

Invest effort in becoming actual leaders. Being a hypocrite is not something to be proud of, and it is for sure not a precondition for applying for a management position. Stop playing politics and start making business instead.