Great Benefits w/ Decent Pay, but limited Growth Opportunities - Data Scientist SAP Employee Review

4.0
8 Jan 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great for those looking to settle down for career stability, work-life balance, have families, or looking to "jumpstart" career in tech. Better opportunities if you prefer more managerial roles. - Decent base pay for amount of work, with great non-office benefits - Good Work-life balance due to European Culture - Relatively great stability (in terms of turnover) vs. similar-sized companies - Working hours not very strict, depending on manager.

Cons

Not so great for those prioritizing super competitive pay, quick career progression, or high-impact and fast-pace jobs. Especially true if you're more of a technical track person. - While pay is decent, not as competitive vs. others w/ similar market cap/size, or other large tech companies. - Jobs feel relatively low impact if you're working in non-mainline or revenue-generating products. - Heavy bureaucracy due to company size, management decisions can be slow. - Technical/non-managerial positions experience slow career progression & restricted opportunities. Feels like it takes very long time to move up the rank ladder if you're not in management track. - Majority of bonus pay is based on company performance rather than individual contribution, so not super incentivized for growth/work. - Low visibility/understanding of company's overall objectives, making purpose of projects sometimes feel very confusing or direction-less

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Cons

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4.0
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Pros

I really liked my role at SAP. After being a cloud Customer Success Manager supporting strategic clients for several years, I moved into a group doing digital customer outreach including producing newsletters, release enablement, webcasts, documentation, event registrations, etc. Salary and bonuses were good, no complaints there.

Cons

No real cons for the job that I was in, except that our group was eliminated by the corporate restructuring and reduction in workforce in North America in 2025. I would have loved to stay but unfortunately we probably showed up on a restructuring spreadsheet somewhere and it was determined that our services were no longer needed. We off-boarded most of our work to other existing employees (who already had full time jobs), which felt unfair to them, but that is how it shook out.

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