Pros
Best of breed products and solutions, good benefits, excellent work/life balance, opportunities to move around within the company to continue learning and broadening your experience
Kontras
This company helped create Business Analytics; they were among the first to do it and the products are still the best available, but the leadership is failing. They don't have a vision for how to grow and adapt to what is now a highly competitive market. Because SAS is still privately owned, it is still run by one person who makes all major decisions. Therefore, it's difficult for outsiders to come into the company and try to implement the changes that SAS needs to stay competitive. As a result, they only promote to top management positions from within, so no fresh thinking. With our best of breed products, we should be growing at least 15% a year, but we're not. Also, salaries are NOT competitive, SAS used to be able to pay below market rate because our excellent benefits were extraordinary, but they no longer are; a lot of companies offer the same benefits.