https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/12/retail_giant_kingfisher_says_no/
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Good overview of the trouble in paradise:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvNarjZdpv0&t=607s
@ed have you thought of bringing these challenges to the executive board? They are keen to listen in and improve the company if they can get good feedback. Just respond by email to CK or any of the other executive board members where they have asked for it.
@b1 This is a matter of perspective. It won't change anything at SAP but it can have a personal impact. As you stated, the executive board will just blame us. It doesn't feel very good to work with customers that feel that we are incompetent and don't care. I've been on quite a few customer calls where they acknowledge that my ability to assist them is limited due a poor working infrastructure.
A lot of you allow SAP to have way too much stock in your life. Perhaps the questions we should be asking ourselves aren't how many layoffs there have been or will be, but how many of those laid off lost everything. The job market presents challenges but everyone I know who got laid off not only found new positions, but also looks back on their layoffs as blessings in disguise.
@dh Oh please. Enough of this endless Signavio bashing.
Signavio is a very small part of SAP in Germany. And many of the aspects you endlessly and repeatedly describe are simply not true for any of the many non-Signavio departments of SAP in WDF or ROT I happen to know.
You cannot extrapolate from Signavio to the rest of SAP Germany, or SAP at large.
@cx+1kepv9jcw Signavio teams in WDF and Rot are full of incompetent and self centered people who move from one failed product to another and finally landed at Signavio to milk it with 10%+ increments and big fat promotions.
@cf That is not fully true.
I do not have daily dealings with the board or L1 level, but by far most people I deal with in WDF and ROT are decent and professional.
@b6 this shouldn't surprise anyone. The entire Walldorf and St. Leon-Rot offices are like that. And with HPOM and layoffs, they're trying to only replicate this across all SAP offices.
Leadership? That role at SAP jumped the shark 3 years ago when the company went woke and forced out 85% the people that knew how to sell software.
Look around you.. find a leader in NA (recently been plugged in) that was also a successful salesperson. You’ll find maybe 3. The rest hilariously have been (overwhelmingly) a “buddy”, a neighbor or an “HR friendly” placement.
@a6 why would that matter? If customers don't agree to the plan, the executive board will just blame employees and push for more layoffs. It's not like anyone will hold them accountable for the AI slop that's being added to all SAP products.
Thank you for sharing. Leadership is not willing to relate to SAP employees. It's nice to know that customers at least share our frustrations with tone deaf decision makers.