Meh - Anonymous employee Esri Employee Review

2.0
13 Jan 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

When you work over 40 hours, you have the option to get paid for them or bank them as vacation hours. Employees and domestic partner/spouse don't have to pay for health benefits.

Cons

People tend to stay at the company for a long time (many of my co-workers had been there 8-20 years), and I think this - and that Esri's a private company that hasn't had to worry about profitability much - results in a lot of "this is how we've always done it" and reluctance to try things that feel new to them.

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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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