[4326] in sapr3-soft
SAP Job Opportunity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad H. McCollum)
Tue Oct 26 00:05:08 1999
To: sapr3-soft@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 03:58:57 GMT
From: bmccoll1@midsouth.rr.com (Brad H. McCollum)
Message-Id: <38152618.487014@news-server>
I would appreciate any input/opinions which could be offered to me
with respect to a job offer made to me today.
I was recently a casualty in a massive layoff campaign at a large
hospital corporation. I had been doing Access/VBA development work
for them for the past 4.5-5 years.
I interviewed earlier today with another large company here in town
for an SAP programming position.
First of all, I have *NEVER* touched SAP. Heck... I *barely* knew
what SAP stood for going into the interview. As I had mentioned
before, nearly 99.9% of my I.S./I.T. experience has been within the
realm of Access/VBA.
I have heard both good and bad about SAP (actually more bad than
good), and wanted to solicit a few opinions from those of you who work
with SAP on a routine basis to hopefully assist me in evaluating two
job offers I have in front of me.
I have another job offer from a small company here in town as an
Access/VBA Developer. I'd be the only I.S./I.T. person in an office
of 20 people for a local insurance company. I'd be in charge of
maintaining their existing 2-3 Access databases, as well as developing
additional Access applications and/or adding additional functionality
to those existing 2-3 applications. They're looking at moving these
databases to a SQL Server back-end in the future, but this won't be
anything that's done in the immediate future.
The other job offer I've received is the SAP offer from a really large
corporation here in town. I think they're planning on having around
60 people involved in a team of folks working on an entirely new
segment of SAP-related development.
Both jobs pay within $2000 of each other.
I've just heard from so many people that companies, in many cases, end
up spending millions of dollars on SAP-related issues, finally figure
out that it doesn't do what they thought it was going to do for them,
they scrap the whole thing, and end up scrapping all of their SAP
programmers as well. To be honest, I've consistently heard a lot more
negative stuff about SAP than postive.
Anyone have any comments which might assist me in assessing this
situation a little more deeply?
Thanks in advance for any comments you may be able to provide to me.
Pls. feel free to drop your comments to me at bmccoll1@midsouth.rr.com
Sincerely,
Brad H. McCollum
bmccoll1@midsouth.rr.com
