European ministry for software : very good work/life balance, lots of politics and inertia - Product Specialist SAP Employee Review

2.0
16 Dec 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Very good work/life balance, several recent innovation initiative that are real breakthrough for the market (Big data / hana, mobile, Saas) which bring as many really interesting professional opportunities. Global company where product management can have a global reach on business. Strong intercultural background, product management is often involved with many sites & cultures as well with different technologies. Pays well.

Cons

Many hierarchical levels, which brings executives too far from the reality and often inaccessible or unconcerned, with lots of politics, all this is bringing tons of inertia. Cumbersome organisation intended at fitting everybody, groups are sometimes redundant or useless. HR totally inefficient to enable mobility or support careers, while such a large company actually offers so many opportunites internally.

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Cons

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Pros

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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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