Esri reviews

3.7

67% would recommend to a friend

(1,511 total reviews)
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Jack Dangermond

79% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

Esri has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 1,511 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Esri employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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2K reviews
2.0
Apr 3, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1.Great health insurance. 2.Flexible work hours. 3.Low pressure and good balance of work/life.

Cons

1.Atrocious raises and base pay. No matter your seniority, your raises will be in the lower single digits. HR and the team will always find every crooked excuse in the book to not pay you what you deserve. A lot of good talent has left the company in the last 2 years due to this very reason. (Over 30% of my team left in the last 1 year over salary and raises). 2. Upper management lives in a shell and does not understand current trends. If you speak up on behalf of you and your colleagues, management pretends to care but gaslights you anyway. 3.Weird WFH rules. Some of the team members have no purpose being on campus and have individual jobs that can be accomplished from across the world without issues. Yet, HR makes them drive 2 hours, 3 times a week in the name of hybrid.

1.0
Sep 13, 2022

READ THE BAD REVIEWS, THEY ARE ALL TRUE

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Free healthcare for employee and dependents

Cons

• The company is in a very interesting space, essentially having a monopoly on the market in addition to other technologies that require it in order to function. This means that you are expendable. • If you are in a “regional office”, you don’t matter. • “Team Leads” make for poor managers. • The best leaders at this company are almost never in management roles. • They will pay you less under the guise that you are “lucky to be working here”! • Almost no one in leadership has any business being there. • There are tremendous pay discrepancies for people of similar roles, talents, etc. The company was recently sued by the federal govt for paying women less, and no one was surprised. • I have spoken with several people that have been harassed by regional managers in the worst possible ways and have no recourse of action but to sit there and take it. • Extremely high turnover rate. Not a good place for go-getters. • It is not uncommon for people to willingly leave the company but do so under mysterious circumstances. • You might often wonder; Why is it so difficult to have a positive experience with this company? • Don’t involve HR with anything, they are there to protect the company. • DON’T TRUST ANYONE, ESPECIALLY MANAGEMENT!!!!!!! • The worst company I’ve ever worked for, by far. With Jack’s age, it feels like the Soviet Union after Stalin died and now the goons are fighting for control or setting themselves up for a hostile takeover while smiting their opponents behind their back. Here is the company’s recipe for “forcing someone out” …. Make that person obsolete by relegating them to the back of the room whereby they have no contribution, then put them on a plan, continue to diminish that person’s footprint with the company, this is more than enough justification to pay them less each year and eventually that person will likely leave. I have seen this several times, almost always forcing out extremely capable people. In one circumstance, a observed a co-worker that got a second job because they did nothing at Esri but earned around $50/hour.

3.0
Jan 7, 2019

A Good Place To Build Your Resume, Then Leave.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Esri does a great job in recruiting and hiring smart talented individuals. - The company is large and within the GIS industry is highly well known - Beautiful campus within Redlands. - A lot of tools and technologies at your exposure depending on the team you work for. These tools can help you gain greater expereince in things like GIS, Adobe, Workfront etc. - Insurance is covered by the company, this is a big contributor as to why some employees stay here for years and years.

Cons

- HR (Human Resources) is more like "Company Resources." The HR team looks out for the companies best interest and is not in support of the individuals within Esri at all. No matter the situation or disagreement, HR will always be in support for the company plain and simple. - Growth is not supported or discussed. If you apply to Esri, depending on which team, be prepared to have that role for years with no change to your pay what so ever. - If you are looking for a possible financial opportunity, Esri is not the company for you. There are "yearly increases" that come at Esri, however if you team did not perform, or your manager made poor decision, your team will not see an increase. If that .50 cents is important to you however, you may make an argument as to why you deserve it while sitting with your manager and HR. - Esri will promote individuals based off years served at Esri and not based off experience. You can see someone being promoted to Marketing Director who's spend 15 years at Esri as an Engineer rather than promoting a 5 year Marketing Manger to Marketing Director. It makes no sense. - The company does not believe in peer reviews. They have no conducted one manager peer review in 50 years. This is why terrible manager continue to have a job at Esri.

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