Great people, great work, lack of opportunity - Anonymous employee Esri Employee Review

4.0
6 Apr 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The highly intelligent, talented and kind people. The work is challenging but the work/life balance and benefits are excellent. Very flexible as long as you do not take advantage of it and your work is done. During a town hall meeting, the owner Jack referred to every employee as family members he needed to make sure were taken care of.

Cons

Lack of upward mobility, no visibility on criteria for promotions, politics can sometimes get in the way of progress.

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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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