Unlike anything else - Anonymous employee Esri Employee Review

2.0
Feb 22, 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

ESRI is a very unique company in all aspects of how they conduct business, manage employees and bring products to market. This is a positive if you are interested in staying away from the traditional corporate culture.

Cons

The company lacks serious management talent. Most of the management team has no experience and they are simply followers rather than leaders. It's never really clear where things originated from or why we are doing something. I have never seen anything like this before. It's quite interesting to see how something as simple as a news article or buzzword drives the entire direction of the company. It's scary and alarming, and most of all, it's a big distraction for sales and marketing and product development.

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Cons

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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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