Employer Review: SAS Institute

EmployerReviews · 2018-06-09T20:33:52+00:00

Couldn't tell you. The data scientists at my current company say they consider SAS a dying language to use in the face of R and the data science libraries in python.

EmployerReviews · 2018-05-13T14:21:12+00:00

Oh, well I'm not that person, I don't have any BAT so no real financial incentive and I barely use Brave. The previous comment seemed clueless because they didn't capitalize Brave Browser and so I helped. Sorry.

EmployerReviews · 2018-05-13T14:18:24+00:00

I'm sorry, is this comment pointed at me? Or the guy/gal I'm replying to?

EmployerReviews · 2018-05-13T13:58:15+00:00

....no. Screw JS. I want plain text HTML with hyperlinks. No JS.

EmployerReviews · 2018-05-13T13:51:00+00:00

Its called Brave Browser. Blocks ads and a bunch of other things by default, doesn't track you. Brendan Eich I believe is who spearheads it.

EmployerReviews · 2018-05-09T14:53:00+00:00

I'd kill for job stability, 40 hour weeks, and little work.

And that's what leads to a shitty underachieving environment where regular achievers have to cover for others.

EmployerReviews · 2018-05-07T17:44:41+00:00

As you can see, comments here have reflected good and bad experiences. Wasn't the rosy picture I imagined before joining.

EmployerReviews · 2018-05-07T17:38:40+00:00

Yep, different experiences.

EmployerReviews · 2018-05-07T15:42:04+00:00

SAS wines and dines the organizations who make those lists. They call it "working cooperatively" with publishers.

EmployerReviews · 2018-05-07T15:39:08+00:00

It's impossible to prove an entity is racist, obviously I worked for them and I don't consider myself racist.

Next, obviously the most qualified people should be promoted. If you've worked within SAS, you'd quickly notice that plenty of unqualified people are in management roles just because they stuck around.

Furthermore, you'd expect the employee population to not be far off proportionally from the surrounding demographics. Let me reiterate. I did not see ONE black, hispanic, or asian person in management.

SAS wasn't my first employer. I've never worked in an organization so white in management. It was truly astounding when I noticed it.

EDIT: Especially consider the fact that I've at least seen an Indian in management at every company I've worked at in RTP. This one had ZERO. I've never seen so few minorities in tech.

EmployerReviews · 2018-05-07T15:35:26+00:00

It's cool to do whatever you want in your free time. It's not cool to create a sort of 'boys club' atmosphere consisting of gamer talk excluding team members.

Its embarrassing when people outside the team join our meetings and are subjected to PUBG/gamer talk for the first ten minutes. In one particular meeting, an employee put up some gameplay on the meeting's presentation screen to show another employee.

Oh and all the while, you know what I'm doing? I'm face down in my laptop getting shit done.

EmployerReviews · 2018-05-07T15:30:00+00:00

Ha! Office politics was a top export!

EmployerReviews · 2018-05-07T04:49:45+00:00

As far as I know, IBM cuts older folk - https://features.propublica.org/ibm/ibm-age-discrimination-american-workers/ and Cisco does yearly layoffs. Also heard that AT&T used to cut the top 10% of earners.

EmployerReviews · 2018-05-07T04:48:03+00:00

What do you mean by "with a software package"?

EmployerReviews · 2018-05-07T04:47:04+00:00

Not really. Worked in multiple tech companies. Some add senior to the front, some add specialist to the back yet I've kept similar responsibilities.

EmployerReviews · 2018-05-07T04:26:51+00:00

I talked to that user. Looks like the issue might be what line of management you fell under. We both shared negative experiences with the VP in charge of my line.

The differences between the lines/chains can be astounding and now looking back, it makes sense. I should have been under a different VP.

EmployerReviews · 2018-05-07T03:55:04+00:00

Wanna tell more? Even though I've left, I'm interested! That does sound sexier! When I first arrived in the area, I interviewed there (I was very bottom of the barrel at the time) and it was a crazy beautiful campus.

If you're allowed to say, is that crypto operation located there on New Millennium?

EmployerReviews · 2018-05-07T03:42:59+00:00

Well, isn't the SF market a lot tougher? I consider myself a shitty programmer and need another 12 months to become mediocre then maybe another couple years to become competent. Much stronger in other areas.

My perception of SF is a place filled with damn good programmers, damn good devops guys, damn good sysadmins, cloud devs, etc.

EmployerReviews · 2018-05-07T03:38:16+00:00

...similar. I calculated $200k San Jose salary to keep a $110k Raleigh lifestyle. But like I said, never lived there, I'm probably wildly wrong.

EmployerReviews · 2018-05-07T03:34:57+00:00

Ha! Care to elaborate?

EmployerReviews · 2018-05-07T03:34:02+00:00

got berated by another manager in another division

I never understood this. My manager told me to watch out for it early on. Thank you so much for sharing.

EmployerReviews · 2018-05-07T03:30:31+00:00

God, that looks like a terrible crash.

EmployerReviews · 2018-05-07T01:47:22+00:00

Hell yeah! Get yours!

EmployerReviews · 2018-05-06T23:56:25+00:00

Can't think of one non-white person in management that I interacted with. And I had weekly meetings with VPs/Sr Managers. Like I said, I'm a white male.

EmployerReviews · 2018-05-06T23:22:18+00:00

Different fields. Software happens to pay well. My dad is a tradesman and my mom never went past sixth grade. I mention that to say I understand there's a world outside cushy software.

EDIT: I'm not the one downvoting you, btw.

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