Toxic: Avoid - Analyst Esri Employee Review

2.0
4 Jan 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Decent benefits, although the free medical carries high deductibles and the 401(k) match does not vest for years. A job for life, if you can tolerate the cons.

Cons

The Peter principle is in full effect when it comes to management. A dispiriting, demoralizing environment, where low morale is widespread, as demonstrated by the many bad reviews on this site. I wish I had heeded them. Because incompetence goes unpunished, incompetents abound. Lower-than-average pay and vacation time. Negotiate before signing anything. Some colleagues are refreshingly diligent and professional, while others distinguish themselves by spending hours (no exaggeration) chatting about matters other than work and disappearing for two hours daily. A "strict" "policy" forbidding working from home means that, depending on your department and manager, you can either work from home regularly or never work from home. Combine that with being paid by the hour, and the result is colleagues spending hours chatting about matters other than work and taking multi-hour breaks. This technology company uses two timekeeping systems that do not communicate with each other. You enter your hours in both, and managers spend their time reconciling the two.

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Cons

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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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