Ok work with mediocre pay and great benefits. - Help Desk Specialist Ellucian Employee Review

4.0
31 Jan 2022
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Pros

The benefits are excellent and they start on your first day. They will promote you if you show proficiency. They are willing to accommodate most schedules. They give you 10 sick days, 14 vacation days, and holidays including one "floating holiday." They don't require experience or certifications, but they do help.

Cons

Payroll is a hassle. My department gets paid by the hour, while the rest of the company is paid by salary. So they use a complicated formula to determine what we're going to be paid rather than just simply paying us for the time worked. It does balance out, but it is a pain to track. Some people may find the work difficult because you handle lots of accounts. It does take a certain kind of person to do this job efficiently. The knowledge bases we have on the accounts are sometimes incorrect or not up to date. Sometimes they can be confusing and difficult to understand.

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5.0
11 May 2026
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Pros

Work-life balance is amazing, great team to work with. Lots of opportunities to advance and learn new things

Cons

None. I've had an amazing experience working for Ellucian!

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1.0
14 Apr 2026
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Pros

Ellucian had some genuinely brilliant people. I mean real talent. Smart engineers, sharp support people who could look at a broken system and somehow see both the problem and the political disaster hiding behind it. A lot of people there cared deeply about higher ed. They understood that colleges and universities are not just “customers.” They are institutions trying to keep students moving, faculty supported, and operations alive with systems that often looked held together by duct tape, PLSQL scripts, and institutional trauma.

Cons

Then there was the C-suite. Every company has executives. That’s normal. But this group often felt less like corporate stewards and more like LinkedIn influencers who accidentally wandered into an ERP company. They seemed distant. Aloof. Not deeply engaged with the actual work, the clients, or the people carrying the weight. There was a lot of executive polish, a lot of corporate language, a lot of “vision,” but not always the kind of grounded leadership that makes employees say, “I trust these people with the future of the company.” At times, it felt like the people closest to the customers understood the business better than the people paid the most to lead it.

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