It's a trap! - Support Sage Employee Review

1.0
29 Oct 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Decent benefits 4 weeks PTO Monday to Friday

Cons

When signing up for this company, you're going to get sold an open, career oriented and customer focused environment with incentives. You'll quickly realize that this was a trap for the following reasons: - There is no advancement even if you are in the top performers of your team. You will fill in a fantastic career growth plan with your manager that you'll never hear about ever again. - You'll get overwhelm with work because even though the core value of this company is "customer first", they are only focused on getting their investors happy which means high revenue and low expenses so short staff and frustrated customers is the day to day routine there. - The CEO or president will fly in from the UK once a year to let you know how proud he is and how good of a job you made and one month later, your manager will announce you that there will be no bonuses and all that good work you did was for nothing. - Looking for good work/life balance, working from home, time off to see your family during the holidays? The answer is NO. Blackout period during holidays and in the middle of summer plus most of your day off request denied because the company operates at barely minimum staff. - The company will never adjust your salary so if you work there for a couple years, you'll realize newbies will be making more money then you do. - You're performance oriented and good at generating leads? Great, you'll get rewarded with dollar store garbage. - You're bilingual? Definitely a plus but wait! You'll get no extra money for this skill and you'll get terrible working hours. So overall, if you are ambitious, hard working and looking for a real career with good work/life balance, I would strongly recommend you to look somewhere else.

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Pros

Working at Sage these past 4 years has been both rewarding and energizing. I’ve really valued the opportunity to collaborate with talented teams across the business while helping evolve our Developer Content organization into a broader developer experience and AI-enabled function. One of the most meaningful parts of the experience has been seeing how open people are to innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement. It’s been exciting to contribute to initiatives that improve both internal workflows and the experience for our developer community. I’m grateful for the relationships, growth opportunities, and trust I’ve been given throughout the year, and I’m looking forward to what’s ahead.

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3.0
15 Apr 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-Pay’s decent -Benefits are solid -The Sage Foundation feels like proper philanthropy -Some genuinely nice people -If you’re happy treating work as just a payslip and don’t mind things being a bit dull, Sage is actually quite a comfortable place to be. That stability is a real perk

Cons

-Far too many layers of middle management and general bureaucracy -The Ai push is getting a bit daft -Not especially innovative, so the work can feel quite uninspiring. I’m grateful to be employed, but if you’re after something more interesting, Sage will probably disappoint. That said, some people prefer it that way, fair enough -The office / hybrid requirements feel a bit pointless -Sage doesn’t tend to do layoffs, which is good, but it does mean there are quite a few people where you’re not entirely sure what they do. A lot of meetings, essentially. Even the positives come with trade-offs

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Sage Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughtful and balanced review. We’re pleased to hear that you value your compensation and benefits, as well as the work our Foundation do, among the areas you’ve highlighted. We also recognise the points you’ve raised around bureaucracy, innovation, and the pace and focus of change. Different people are motivated by different things at work, and it’s helpful to hear honest perspectives on how our structure, processes, and priorities can impact day‑to‑day experience and engagement. Feedback like yours helps inform ongoing conversations as we continue to evolve our ways of working, use technology more meaningfully, and improve the products and experiences we create for our customers. If you’re open to sharing further insight, we encourage you to do so through our Always Listening survey. Thank you again for your openness and for being part of Sage.
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