Sabre Reviews

I have been working at Sabre full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great people, smart, collaborative, successful business, supportive and positive culture, strong drive to succeed, win and grow the business. I felt my work was appreciated and valued, and felt I could make a real impact on the business.

Cons – Some controls are over-centralized at times , which can slow things down on occasion, and pay outside of the US can be 10 -20% below the local market norms for high quality finance professionals.

Advice to Senior Management – Empower the regional teams a bit more, but otherwise a very well run, excellent business.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Sabre

Pros – Semi-flexible working arrangements means working from home is acceptable. Lots of travel involved to some really cool places (although recent cost cutting is slowing that down). Decent bonuses each year (usually between 5-10%). 5 weeks holiday in the UK is standard. Lower level bosses and directors are usually easy-going and understanding.

Cons – The workloads can really stretch you. The reward for completing work is more workload. There are people in the company who don't carry their weight, creating more work for everybody else and they aren't even disciplined. They are just left to themselves. The lay-offs affect the company globally meaning everybody has to suddenly do more than one or two positions at once.

Advice to Senior Management – The Marketing department is a useless, expensive and elitist waste of time. They have most of the influence over product development but know nothing about what the customers are needing because they never see them. Something has to change.

I have been working at Sabre full-time

Pros – Allows work from home and eco friendly.

Cons – Shallow on culture and not good training.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Sabre full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Good working environment, flexibility, decent package

Cons – Movement between team difficult.
Politics inside company

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Sabre full-time for more than a year

Pros – Very Good place to work here.

Cons – I am not sure now.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Sabre full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Environmentally conscious. Sabre has many company sponsored community events and subsidizes your health benefits if you participate in education/exercise program. There is also plenty of opportunity to change jobs and stay with the same company.

Cons – It is difficult to move up unless your leadership leaves or retires. You are not able to advance career by switching jobs very easily. Those are mostly lateral moves.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Sabre full-time for less than a year

Pros – Nice campus and cafeteria. Friendly, competent and helpful co-workers. Able to work from home.

Cons – Revolving-door management. Overconfident, overcontrolling, clueless, grandiose and inscrutable in varying proportions. Mindless, unrealistic attempts to reduce knowledge-dependent, ever-changing tasks to checklists for offshore employees without the relevant background. This is a result of the belief that employees are completely interchangable, which derives from both wishful thinking and the desire to use cheap offshore labor. Customer-facing policies in disarray, creating needless thrash and knee-jerk reaction. Way too many useless meetings.

Advice to Senior Management – Try getting lower-level managers who know something about what they are managing, or at least ones willing and able to learn. Try to avoid being given a snow job, unless you are engaged in doing same to your superiors.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Sabre full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Good place to work, felxible hours

Cons – too much politic, to much focus on details

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Sabre full-time for more than a year

Pros – If you're a top performer and hyper competitive, you will thrive here. If you are a mediocre talent, you can hide and coast here.

Cons – Silos are not aligned and a lot of senior/executive management has left recently. Flex seating is a joke and not enough places to sit everyone where they can work with their teams.

Advice to Senior Management – Break down the silos and fiefdoms. Too many times good ideas are corrupted and become poorly executed.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Sabre full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – 1)Work from home policy is exceptional (in most departments) 2) The airline industry is a fascinating and dynamic one 3) Green company with a strong community presence; nice building 4) Easy opportunities to move around (horizontally)

Cons – It is unfortunate to see a company that was once a true leader in innovation relegated to one where buzzwords, marketing, and bureaucracy rule the roost. The CEO has championed a 'good old boys network' where loyalty beats merit and incompetent senior leaders enjoy inexplicable stability. Ideas are killed by bureaucracy and middle management who are too focused on expediency rather than on quality. Marketing team does ZERO reconnaissance learning how difficult it is to build a solution before selling a given product, often resulting in blatant lies to their customers and setting preposterous delivery schedules. 'Innovation' is one of a continuum of buzzwords that get thrown around with no substance backing it up. Sabre *used* to be an innovate organization delivering state-of-the art solutions. The organization does little-to-no R&D today and instead focuses on oscillating fixes from customer-to-customer. As a result, recruiting top talent has struggled, and their best and brightest often leave for better opportunities (usually within a year). I find many technologists have gone to Sabre only because it was a last resort. Most old-timers (of which there are many, at least in the Southlake HQ) have plateaued in their careers and are too risk-averse to accept new ideas. Excessive meetings, corporate fluff, and speaking without substance have become the norm. Some products are stable and serve their customers well; however most are buggy and far too immature to be brought to market, which the shoot first, ask questions later mentality wins out. Overcrowding in the Southlake offices exacerbate the stress experienced by employees. Unless you can afford a $700K-plus mortgage, plan on a minimum commute of 30 minutes on days you have to travel to the office.

In short, this is not the Sabre of old. Might be a wonderful place for an MBA. For others, this is a sinking ship.

Advice to Senior Management – Your turnover rate amongst your brightest new hires is at a staggering level. Find a way to retain them; most can get jobs elsewhere at the blink of an eye. Find a way to encourage collaboration across groups, and make sure marketing folks steak with technologists before making promises they cannot possibly deliver. Cut out several unnecessary layers of middle management (and several senior managers if possible). Get back to doing some R&D, and take a risk or two. Reduce overcrowding on campus, and just be more honest with your employees and customers alike.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company