Pros
Free healthcare for employee and dependents
Cons
• The company is in a very interesting space, essentially having a monopoly on the market in addition to other technologies that require it in order to function. This means that you are expendable. • If you are in a “regional office”, you don’t matter. • “Team Leads” make for poor managers. • The best leaders at this company are almost never in management roles. • They will pay you less under the guise that you are “lucky to be working here”! • Almost no one in leadership has any business being there. • There are tremendous pay discrepancies for people of similar roles, talents, etc. The company was recently sued by the federal govt for paying women less, and no one was surprised. • I have spoken with several people that have been harassed by regional managers in the worst possible ways and have no recourse of action but to sit there and take it. • Extremely high turnover rate. Not a good place for go-getters. • It is not uncommon for people to willingly leave the company but do so under mysterious circumstances. • You might often wonder; Why is it so difficult to have a positive experience with this company? • Don’t involve HR with anything, they are there to protect the company. • DON’T TRUST ANYONE, ESPECIALLY MANAGEMENT!!!!!!! • The worst company I’ve ever worked for, by far. With Jack’s age, it feels like the Soviet Union after Stalin died and now the goons are fighting for control or setting themselves up for a hostile takeover while smiting their opponents behind their back. Here is the company’s recipe for “forcing someone out” …. Make that person obsolete by relegating them to the back of the room whereby they have no contribution, then put them on a plan, continue to diminish that person’s footprint with the company, this is more than enough justification to pay them less each year and eventually that person will likely leave. I have seen this several times, almost always forcing out extremely capable people. In one circumstance, a observed a co-worker that got a second job because they did nothing at Esri but earned around $50/hour.