Great day-to-day experiences, issues up the line - Product Engineer Esri Employee Review

4.0
Oct 23, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Paid hourly, so extra hours are paid out/banked for vacation. Great benefits and profit sharing. I love working on a product that is vital for the health and future of the planet, and there is great communication and flexibility in my immediate team. I feel like my work matters.

Cons

Many teams are unable to appropriately prioritize - frustrating to watch the product suffer because teams are overpromising features instead of fixing bugs and equivalency issues. There are definitely some "old-guard" politics - employees who have been around for so long and are used to putting their feet up. New hires are being paid less than they should be to fund these people's low-effort paychecks.

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Pros

Collaborative environment, great people, wonderful benefits

Cons

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2.0
May 12, 2026
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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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