Patience, Drive, and more Patience - Account Executive Esri Employee Review

4.0
Apr 9, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Hourly pay (so you never feel you're working "for free"), market leader, enormous resources, diverse, talented and dedicated user base, free family-wide health insurance, profit sharing, very talented and intelligent colleagues. Actually pretty agile for a company this size. Not like a start-up, of course, but I think Esri can change directions better than most other companies its size.

Cons

Still a relatively flat organization for one its size, so moving up (in the traditional sense) requires a lot of patience and finding the right moment to strike. Wage increases are small, even for many high-performing personnel. Sometimes, travel can be burdensome due to long stretches of visiting clients and trade shows.

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