Vantaggi
SAP are on a roll with innovative, game-changing new products being launched and in the pipeline. If you're passionate about software it's very hard to beat. Highly competitive pay and excellent (flexible) benefits, including up to 36 days holiday a year! Open, friendly culture. Generally good respect for the idea of work/life balance, with a European, rather than American, culture. Good opportunities for taking training and personal development. Free lunches and a great canteen!
Svantaggi
Although personal development and career progression is very much encouraged, there's little formal structure around it. If you're happy to get on with the job you're in there's no pressure to move upwards which is great. But if you're talented and ready to move on in the company, then it's very much down to you to make that happen, and often relies on who-knows-who. I'd like to see more opportunities for high potentials to get exposure and experience in different areas of the business. Benefits and expense limits with fixed values, such as car allowance, perhaps used to be generous but haven't been revised since they were introduced. Can be a fair bit of bureaucracy from numerous layers of management. There seems to be a great desire to impose the same processes and structures on all countries across EMEA, regardless of what might work best in a local context. Office environment (Clockhouse Place) is pleasant but somewhat dated - you'll often find better elsewhere. Office location is nowhere near any shops or amenities, and is difficult to reach on public transport.