Is Esri a good company to work for?

Esri has an overall rating of 3.7 out of 5, based on over 1,771 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has decreased by 4% over the last 12 months. 67% of employees would recommend working at Esri to a friend and 65% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about Esri have been left by employees working as Software Engineer(Internship) , Intern and Solution Engineer .

Does Esri pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Esri employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.2 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Esri. This rating has decreased by 5% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Esri?

67% of Esri employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Esri 4.0 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.7 for culture and values and 3.4 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Esri?

Product Engineer (93) , Software Engineer (69) , Account Manager (49) , Intern (36) , Software Developer (29) , Solution Engineer (25) , GIS Analyst (24) , Senior Software Engineer (24) , Technical Support Analyst (23) , Project Manager (21) , Support Analyst (21) , Account Executive (19) , Product Engineer II (18) , Solutions Engineer (18) , Software Development Engineer (17)

What are the pros of working at Esri according to real employee reviews?

"Great benefits and valuable on" ((in 181 reviews)); "The people I work with are great and we have a common goal of serving the customer." ((in 166 reviews)); "Good work life balance if you maintain healthy boundaries" ((in 105 reviews)); "Campus is beautiful and green" ((in 53 reviews)); "The team I worked with was great and the assignments were very engaging" ((in 45 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Esri according to real employee reviews?

"Apart from low salary everything is great" ((in 87 reviews)); "Poor management, they choose people who don't know how to manage people and don't train them." ((in 76 reviews)); "Most managers don't have a clue about anything technology related despite that esri tells us we are a software company." ((in 47 reviews)); "No career path will be laid out for you" ((in 36 reviews)); "Low compensation for the amount of knowledge one is expected to have." ((in 23 reviews))

What are employees saying about Esri layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Esri layoffs and their outlook for job security at Esri in 2026.

What Esri locations have received the highest employee ratings?

New York , Saint Louis , Los Angeles , Charlotte , Philadelphia , Washington , Vienna , Redlands , Denver , Portland

Esri reviews

3.7

67% would recommend to a friend

(1,511 total reviews)

Jack Dangermond

79% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.0

Work/Life balance

3.7

Culture & values

3.7

Diversity & inclusion

3.4

Career opportunities

3.2

Senior management

3.2

Compensation and benefits

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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Reviews by job title

2K reviews

3.0

Nov 8, 2009

Good place to work but very little opportunity for advancement.

Software test engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

- Positive work environment. - Great benefit package: 401K, Medical, Dental, Vision -Opportunity to obtain various skills. -Very casual work environment.

Cons

- The organization is very flat, therefore it is difficult to move up. - Difficult to define a career path.

3.0

Oct 18, 2009

Review for Accounting Dep. and Corp.

Accounting and financial related

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

ESRI is overall a good company. Stable job with good work-life balance for most of the positions. Salary level is average and health care package is fairly good. Most of the core employees worked there for years, and layoff had never happened so far. Most of the Sr. managements are nice.

Cons

ESRI is Jack, which means a huge uncertainty in the future. Sr. managements are very conservative. Since most of them are retiring, they are more concerning about their retirement plan rather than business. It is very hard to say how ESRI will change in 2-3 years. But for sure, ESRI will have a worse transaction than Apple after Jack retired, because ESRI is depending on Jack and his old management team too much.

2.0

Sep 19, 2009

Company culture not what you read on the website

Not in software development

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

The software and the gis community are exciting and always changing. There are lots of good hardworking people to work with who are willing to share what they know to help you learn. If you are in software development or software engineering you get treated really good.

Cons

The hardworking people are invisible to senior management because middle management gets in the way. Alot of people in middle management are there because they know someone or because they've been there so long, but they don't know what they're doing. They only care about their own agendas. It's hurting the company, the employees, and in the long run it will hurt the customers.

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