Great Company Terrible Security Environment! - IT Security Esri Employee Review

3.0
Jul 29, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Pays well, relative stability, budget for IT (not InfoSec) usually not an issue.

Cons

Information is necessary evil. It's a private company with no accountability. Very bad security practices, no reason to change. The majority of their code is regularly stole by bad actors outside the company and no real action take to stop to flow. They only want to appear to implement security. They have almost unlimited budget but will not make and difficult process changes to secure their business. Regular disclosures are covered up.

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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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