good work but bad culture - Esri new delhi R&D center. - Data Scientist Esri Employee Review

2.0
16 Sept 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

1 interesting work. 2. opportunities to get worldwide recognition through conferences. 3. nice work-life balance. 4. nice insurance policy.

Cons

1. non-collaborative work environment, everyone works on their projects, hinders teamwork. 2. Lots of manual testing of software. 3. Everything you do will be for demos, no real impact, everything is to impress higher management and CEO to improve reputation of the team. 4. growth depend on how favourite are you to the manager. 5. no place to go if you have issues with manager, HR isn't helpful they will take side with the manager always. Sometimes, one feels helpless as there is no one to talk to. 6. No annual review of the manager from their team.

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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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