Pros: laid-back & independent work environment, casual fridays, fountain machines within reach, high number of employer sponsored events for individuals with different hobbies, colleagues are very bright and openly collaborative
Cons: you are replaceable if your role is that of a true programmer, workload and expectations can be very demanding at times, performance evaluations are subjective
Placed under a department function similar in operations to a PMO.
Day-to-day responsibilities:
In charge of developing BI enhancements to a BW environment.
Optimized data modeling designs, process chains, roll-up aggregates, etc.
Contributed ideas to any current & future-state projects impacting BI landscape.
Troubleshooted end-user problems related
– more... to reporting tools.
De-bugged software upgrades and enhancements.
Management:
Fair to work with.
Diverse management background.
Easy to communicate with.
Downside- approval process for anything was very bureaucratic.
PM approach was often rigid and inflexible.
No sophisticated tracking or document repository for PM documentation was existent.
Overall:
Experience was not too bad. Exposed too many opportunities to expand my knowledge base and skill set. However, with new IT vision communicated and in the horizon, expect for a more 'standardized' IT landscape with common business processes. This will translate too less 'customizations' or less opportunities for SAP developers. Especially, in the first next couple of years. – less
