SAP is a walled garden for developers - Associate Developer SAP Employee Review

2.0
30 Nov 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Management is great and moderately easy to reach out to. Great benefits and work life balance. Lots of benefits and team events almost daily. Great brand name at least within the older crowd. Clear setting of expectations of current role and future promotions or transitions.

Cons

There are too many procedures that come with being a large company, and it’s hard to cope with it as a new joiner. The tech stack in and around ABAP is outdated and does not follow anything that the standard development outside uses. This means that staying at SAP is horrible for employability, as you’re restricted to staying at SAP or working in other companies using SAP. Horrible documentation online due to using SAP specific frameworks.

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