It once was a good, innovative company - Anonymous employee Esri Employee Review

1.0
10 Sept 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Medical Benefits, Dental Benefits, Vision Benefits are covered by the company. 401K plan is good. Initially from the outside looking-in, it seems like a great company to work for: great benefits, and the software is used by thousands around the world for many good causes.

Cons

Work Life Balance is may be non-existent depending the on the team or department. The company praises it's "flat organization structure" as a positive, but it actually has causes internal in-fighting and inefficient redundancy. Employees who have been at the company for a longer duration of time, appear to have realized the way to advance their career in a flat organization is to for a new team within the flat, horizontal structure. A top, senior director once said to me: "We have a lot of duds that work here."

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

Esri pays your health insurance. A few extra holidays that other companies may not offer.

Cons

-Below average pay for California. Already a struggle living out here due to cost of living. -Support services is a mess. We have to bend over backwards for customers always teetering on scope of support. Might as not even have those guidelines anymore if it's a constant battle for internal resources to back you. -Constant releases of software that breaks customer workflows. Too many bugs. Lack of QA. -Whats the point of middle management if all decisions have to come from higher ups that have no understanding of supports day by day. -Unwillingness to let senior employees work from home. And if you do work from home they hold it against you if you want to apply to an internal position. Almost like a thinly veiled threat. -Other teams feel the need to steam roll support sometimes, often leading to fragmented relationships. -Lastly there is way too much work and never enough people.

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