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      Ellucian

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      Ellucian reviews

      3.7

      68% would recommend to a friend

      (1,403 total reviews)
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      Laura Ipsen

      74% approve of CEO

      57% positive business outlook

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      Ellucian has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 1,403 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Ellucian employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.6 stars).

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      1.0
      Feb 18, 2013

      A company on the verge of death

      General manager
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      Pros

      Yes, flexible work hours, but shouldn't all technology companies be flexible in this day and age?

      Cons

      Inept senior management. John Speers is a complete joke. He's successfully demoralized the entire company. The HR department continues to make flops and does little to keep key employees.

      1.0
      Apr 14, 2026

      Brilliant talent overshadowed by distant C-suite leadership

      Managing partner
      Recommend
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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.

      3.0
      Feb 27, 2026

      Buyer beware!

      Content writing
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      Pros

      I enjoyed the work and the people sans the "social politics" at the company.

      Cons

      1. The layoff process is insulting, demeaning, and puerile. 2. Most employees seem to be overworked and underappreciated. 3. The promotions process seems less focused on results and more focused on who is assigned to the "right projects". 4. Management is more interested in "optics" than recognizing employees who go above and beyond the proverbial call to duty.

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