Ellucian reviews

If I asked my coworkers, I would probably find that, in recent years, most have had a new manager, on average, every 6 months due to chronic reorganization and turnover. Once, I found out about a manager change by email, and then I didn't hear from him again for months. That was when he scheduled my performance review. The gist of the review was this…he said that he "called around" to talk to a few people, and it seemed like I was doing a good job. I don't even blame him or any of my other managers. They have way too many direct reports. I won't go on. I think another reviewer covered this topic pretty well. Development leadership makes promises to customers and delivers nothing on some product lines, literally, for years. I understand that a company needs to make a profit. However, collecting maintenance from customers year after year and delivering nothing is plainly unethical (and unsustainable). I work hard and I care about personally providing a fair value to the customers that I serve. Frankly though, I'm not feeling good about the value that the company is providing to clients. The taint of that situation is making me feel dirty by association...like I'm participating in a confidence game. At this point I think I should just get out, but the non-compete agreement they made us sign to keep our jobs after the 'strategic combination' is ridiculous. I should have told them I wouldn't sign it and quit, but I naively believed that things would get better. Now I am stuck. Basically it says I can't accept a similar position for one year after employment ends even if they fire me without cause. The question is, what's similar? Anything in higher education, or with a software company, or anywhere in IT? The grapevine tells me that Ellucian is suing former co-workers over the agreement. I'm hearing that these people aren't even working in anything related to higher ed (which is the only industry where Ellucian competes). I guess I'll have to see a lawyer specializing in employment law to see if it's legal and enforceable. It's so sad that it's come to this. Honestly, I feel like this job was the biggest mistake I ever made. I feel that my time at Ellucian has been wasted, and I have done irreparable damage to my career prospects. Right now, I wouldn't recommend this company to a friend, a valued business contact, or my worst enemy.

- No time for personal development and training. The team members from what I could tell, are desperate for training and discussions and there are almost no opportunities for shadowing or additional training. - Nothing comes from providing feedback to management. - Big focus on billable time vs actual development and quality work - Contracts/SOWs are poorly written and sales sells solutions to clients that don't actually work - Internal documentation is terrible and inconsistent - They do not listen to client feedback or complaints. If clients have been requesting a feature for decades, the company should consider implementing it and getting rid of outdated features that no one uses anymore. - No sense of direction. There's always a new initiative, but those on the front lines rarely see any of the impacts. - Constant turnover in management and in the executive area - Low pay compared to other competitors and it's very hard to get a raise. They only give raises once per year and it keeps getting later in the year. These are also only percentage raises unless you get a title promotion. - Very divided structure. Communication between departments is poor. They say they want to be a cloud based company but it's clear that the cloud area is disjointed. - Projects are set up to fail, clients aren't motivated and basic expectations to start a project are not met. - Need to hire more people. They are so focused on getting more billable hours, but there aren't enough people to do all the work. This is a conflicting message. - Not a lot of opportunities for career development and there is almost no training or team meetings like there used to be so it does not feel like we are a team anymore. - There was another comment about teaching racism and DEI. I completely agree with that poster and do not believe it benefits anyone to try and convince their employees that they have been racists all their life when that is not true. This company is going down a bad path if they truly want to be political and align themselves with the negativity that comes from that. - CEO is VERY motivated to push politics onto her employees. We don't need a written statement stating Ellucian's (her) views on every political event that happens. We're not activists and I don't want to be grouped in with a CEO's political opinions.