Sage reviews

3.6

64% would recommend to a friend

(5,275 total reviews)
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70% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

Sage has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 5,275 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Sage employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologia da informação industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
Mar 30, 2017

Account Executive

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Good hours and no weekends. Time off is encouraged. Fooda set ups are nice and very convenient for the employee

Cons

All of the risks in selling solutions is on the employee. Now the Account Executive will not be paid until this solution goes live. This can be almost half a year. Pay is no longer competitive in the marketplace. Very gloomy environment as changes rolled out, the pay no longer matches the original offer. Employees do not trust the company anymore

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Sage Response
9y
Thanks for your review and although you've now left Sage it's great to read you have a good work life balance and enjoyed the food offering in your former offices. We are committed to paying colleagues competitively - our pay structures are based on robust market data. We focus data sourcing on a carefully curated list of high tech companies to ensure we compare ourselves to our competitors. Sage is also committed to rewarding high performers. Our Sales Commission schemes are un-capped, and last year our top performers earned 3 times their annual salary in commission payments alone. Looking at UK data (I don't know where you're from, so apologies if you are not from the UK) - our average earning was £1,023pcm in commission sales. That compares very favourably with our competitors, and is even more competitive in the North East of England where the majority of our UK sales team are based. Thanks again for your review and all the best with your career.
1.0
Feb 22, 2017

Stack Rank Nightmare

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

None - No one should work here or buy Sage software until they publicly renounce their employee performance management system and actively change the culture for the better.

Cons

Penny pinching culture, restrictive PTO policy, and every 6 months to a year 20% are placed on a performance plan regardless of actual objective performance against the job description.

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Sage Response
9y
Thank you for writing your review about Sage. Our rewards, benefits and pay are competitive and I would be interested to hear from you regarding "restrictive PTO" and "penny pinching culture" as we do work hard to ensure we are competitive as possible. Feel free to drop me an email at glassdoor@sage.com. We aspire to have a high performance culture, where colleagues are rewarded for the contribution they make. The performance review process is designed to provide a formal opportunity twice a year between managers and team members to discuss what has been achieved and how results have been achieved. Of course we encourage performance feedback in the moment and regularly as you suggest and the intention is for this to be motivational and corrective too, as necessary. We have lots of opportunities to grow and build your career at Sage, from our leadership programme, to mentoring at Sage to Linda.com. Also, during your development conversation with your manager, use this as an opportunity to discuss how you would like to develop. There are some great tools to guide you in the Sage Academy. Thanks again for your review.
1.0
Jan 27, 2017

Toxic Workplace

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Strong brand on CV. Respected in industry. Strong pedigree. Worked with some very good people and seems to recruit very well

Cons

Treat field based staff awfully. Salary is fairly average and targets are structured in a way that commission isn't easy at all. You certainly won't earn your fortune working here.

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Sage Response
9y
Thanks for your feedback. We agree with you that Sage is very well respected; we have great colleagues and products, although being an established industry leader we are not complacent and we need to keep raising our game. Our values include ‘Do the Right Thing’ and this means our honesty and integrity is how we gain confidence and trust. We get a lot of positive feedback from colleagues about how good our benefits are and great work life balance. With respect to salary, commission and targets we believe are competitive in the market and there is plenty of opportunity to become successful and earn, plus excel - this is being demonstrated right now with over 100 of our colleagues attending our Platinum Elite event - they are in Dubai right now celebrating their awesome achievements! As a colleague at Sage there is lots of opportunity to raise your concerns, but since you have left I can only advise you send us an email - glassdoor@sage.com We wish you every success with your career.
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