SAS reviews

Most people, abusing Dr. Goodnight’s kindness and trust, slacks in their work. When a slacking developer’s manager is competent and hard-working, the developer could be curbed and managed. Unfortunately, the manager himself slacks and lacks the morality and authority to manage. So the team has the weekly prolonged gossipy meeting, they go out for two hour lunch break, they complain and agree on the hurdles to do more work, they SLACK together! What’s cancerous about the slacking managers are their effects on the competent and hard-working developers. If your slacking manager constantly take credit for your idea and hard work, if you’re passed over for pay raise and promotion because you don’t want to condescend yourself to get cozy with the slacking manager whom you ultimately despise, you have two options: either leave SAS, or reduce your working hour for SAS and spend your energy on personal projects to get even. A vicious circle results. Ambitious and competent developers are driven out of SAS. What’s left are bunch of mediocre willing or unwilling slackers. Yes I lost trust in senior executives, but not on the analytics or technology front. I lost trust in senior executives for their ability to recognize and willingness to correct the slacking culture here at SAS. Or, being part of the problem, the VP’s are slacking themselves?

SAS is filled with under achievers, incompetent employees. Average age is pretty high and most of the employees are 60+, think of it as a retirement center. Some of the directors are just like grandparents, you would sometimes need to go visit, talk to them about their health problems, their kids and if you start talking technical, they will not be able to understand at all. I was asked to explain one thing 6-7 times and each time they looked surprised. The salary is a lot under market rate, they easily pay half of your value that you can get other places. No raise, which is unbelievable and the bonus was like a joke (less than 3%). The 401k is only 3%, much less than other companies, which is probably why senior employees have to keep working at this age. No stock or profit sharing. As others said, the "best place to work" on fortune, etc must be rigged or bought or something. None of the employees I know have received any survey for that.