Working at SAP in Palo Alto, CA: 32 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Palo Alto, CA Area

What do you like about working at SAP?

"I loved working for SAP, when my position move to Asia, I decided not to move with the job."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be honest, don't oversell."

What don't you like about working at SAP?

"The company got so big that it started to lose the company culture."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Be more understanding."

"Lots of experience can be gained."

What do you like about working at SAP?

"Good people, wide range of products."

What don't you like about working at SAP?

"Limited career opportunities for engineering if you are not working at HQ."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Focus on products."

What do you like about working at SAP?

"Employees collaboration friendly and team work."

What don't you like about working at SAP?

"Upper management aren't loyal to employees."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Take people skills and how to treat employees and this for facility Sr Manager."

What do you like about working at SAP?

"Working for SAP means you can tell people the truth about the product (excellent, but complex and in need of careful design and implementation), and really try to build the best implementation possible under the circumstances (as opposed to billing the customer until they run out of money, and not caring about the resulting implementation, as many of the big consulting practices too often do)."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Strongly depends on the type of position and area of SAP one is applying for. Success probably involves acting as if you'd swallow anything the organization throws at you. This is not necessarily an organization that wants to hire rebels, out-of-the-box thinkers, or creative people."

What don't you like about working at SAP?

"SAP America is unfortunately a rather inflexible organization. SAP offers good benefits (although they were cut down from fantastic, European level, over the past years), but it generally pays less than competitors for the same (consulting, etc.) work. There are too many people in management (namely: CSE, AE type of people) who do not know the product well enough, tend to be somewhat spineless in conflicts, and who are getting paid too much."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Think about the customer, less about the big implementation partners, who do not care about the customers - otherwise, you end up with more failed implementations, and less respect and reputation than the product deserves. Build more systematic functional support, and more targeted services."

"It was an interesting place to watch ruthlessness go rewarded."

What do you like about working at SAP?

"Looks good on the resume."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Make sure you convey your willingness to cut someone's throat."

What don't you like about working at SAP?

"Transient management."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Provide sharper knives."

What do you like about working at SAP?

"Software Engineer work about data storage and processing. Or research work."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Take it easy. Tell your background and what you have done."

What don't you like about working at SAP?

"There are no diners around. Also there is no shuttle around."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Add diner in the campus. And add shuttle that someone without a car can take."

What do you like about working at SAP?

"SAP has competitive benefits, and nice people to work with."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Recognize that this is a very large organization, and most of your day to day job will be to figure out who and how to do your job."

What don't you like about working at SAP?

"Being a large organization who makes decisions collaboratively, it's very hard to get work done. you have to get buy-in from several people/groups to their approval, otherwise the project is at risk. Not to say that the input isn't valuable, but too many cooks in the kitchen doesn't create high quality."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Allow more executives to make decisions, rather than giving other teams/people not in charge to negatively impact creation and development."

"Good company, good perks and culture. Good employee policies."

"I was an intern at SAP from June 2013 to December 2013. SAP is the leader in the market of enterprise applications in terms of software and software-related service. The working environment is flexible, and comfort. Have free lunch. Can meet people from different countries."

"I have worked for SAP for 8 years. Great culture and really talented motivated people. Bonus structure is awesome. I have nothing but great things to say about SAP."

"SAP is a great company to work for. It provides job stability. However, as is with any big company, growth opportunities stagnate, political environment can be at times stressful. The company does try and maintain a good work-life balance, free lunch, gym, flexible hours."

"Big company and good working atmosphere."

"Great company, great working place."

"I have worked for SAP Labs since June 2013. I simply adore the work environment and energy the employees here have."