Sales Associate Review
by SAP
Rating
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Skills
3.0
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Responsibilities
3.0
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Support & Guidance
3.0
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Culture
3.3
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Your Impressions
3.0
- 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
- 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
- How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
- How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
- How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
- Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
- 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
- Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
- 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
- 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
- How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
- How would you rate the social opportunities?
- How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
- How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
- 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
- Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
- Please rate how your experience met your expectations
- Please rate the future employment prospects at SAP
- 7. Would you recommend SAP to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to SAP
Overview
Mainly ad hoc initiatives, can vary each week depending on projects on at the time. Pulling sales and tracking reports each week to give management an overview of the pipeline. Weekly meetings with AE's and other members of team to support with putting content together for deal proposals.
Skills
Skill development has been limited to the nature of the virtual environment and the lack of in person training and workshops due to covid. Written communication skills improved as well as project management skills. However, it would have been nice if more virtual workshops were provided throughout the process rather than just at the start of the year.
Responsibilities
There were occasions for opportunity of responsibility, however this was inconsistent throughout the year. Within sales there tends to be a culture of making promises but not following up on this. Starting initiatives can be difficult due to the number of approvals needed.
Support & Guidance
A lot of support offered in the first few weeks but this soon dropped off. There was inconsistent cadence throughout the year, planning and guidance sessions seemed to lack personalisation. More regular follow ups throughout the year would have been useful due to the remote working environment.
Culture
With an organisation of over 100,000 people the culture and atmosphere varied a lot depending on teams throughout the market units. There was inconsistency within the culture of teams, some people embodied the culture and others not so much.
Your Impressions
Overall, it was a somewhat an enjoyable experience. However, I do believe the experience would be different in person as there would be more consistent responsibilities within teams.
Yes
Make sure that the role is right for you and make sure to ask questions around responsibilities prior to starting.
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Sales
London
June 2021
