Lack of professional grow, slow moving, unfair salaries - Anonymous employee Esri Employee Review

4.0
11 Feb 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Esri has excellent work-life balance - flexible hours, work from home - just deliver results. Hourly payments far from best ones, but pretty decent taking into account overtime is paid directly in next pay check. Salaries have a good correlation to a price of realty / rent nearby. Stable yearly salary increase (3-10%).

Cons

PMs often have no road ahead because higher management doesn't have it as well. Work-life balance if often abused by some people - they do whatever except work. Same bonuses for all employees doesn't matter how hard you work. Lack of new technologies (all apps are made on Dojo, a lot of legacy ArcObjects), no cloud thinking.

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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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