Esri reviews

---Compensation--- The pay wasn't competitive in the past and I don't see that changing anytime soon. With record growth over the past few years and some departments doubling their revenue, leadership came to the table this year with less than 3% merit wage increase and were excited to hand them out. I realize that matching inflation is unrealistic but when you grow a multi billion dollar company by 15% and tell your employees how lucky they are to get 3% that feels bad. I have heard that in years past they couldn't even manage that much of a pay increase. ---Benefits are really lack luster--- You probably wont see that in other reviews because people at Esri are wowed into complacency because Esri pays your healthcare insurance premiums. This is a great benefit, don't get me wrong. This can be worth thousands of dollars in extra gross income per year depending on the size of your family. (more on family size and working at Esri below) However, the deeper you look into other standard benefits for a tech company the more you reveal that is just bottom of the barrel stuff. I will go over the 401k program, leave for new mothers and fathers, PTO, and bereavement below. --- 401k --- Esri gives a 3% match on a 6% contribution. This aligns with industry standards. The problem is Esri offloaded some of the management of the plan onto the provider and the provider charges you a fee every quarter that comes out of your retirement just to be there. This isn't due to specialized financial planning this is just a fee to have a 401k. Also the 401k match doesn't vest until 3 years which is just kind of annoying. ( if you leave before the 3 year mark you lose some of the match that they have put into your plan.) ---Leave For New Mothers And Fathers--- I hope that while you work at Esri you either don't want to start a family or you live in a state that requires employers to pay their employees for maternity and paternity leave because it clearly isn't something that Esri wants to encourage. Esri takes the lazy way out and leans on California's laws regarding this type of leave. That would be fine if they only had employees in California, but they in fact do not. If you find yourself outside of California make sure that you have worked there for a year and the federal FMLA leave WITHOUT PAY is enough for you because you wont see a dime from your employer. This just blows my mind for a tech company. ---PTO--- Esri's PTO policy is a weird one that will likely depend on your management. The separate it out between Vacation and Sick time. The first year you get 8 days of vacation time and that is about 4 days short of the avg for companies over 100 employees according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. depending on how you count the 40 hours of sick time and how flexible your manager is this may be in line with the PTO avg but in the tech industry this is probably near the bottom of the list. ---Bereavement--- Again, I don't have someone close to you pass at all but definitely not while you work at Esri. The policy is 3 days of PTO or 5 if you must travel outside the US. The list of relationships that qualify is limited to parents, spouse, domestic partners, siblings, and children. Not only is 3 days insanely weak, but I guess Esri has decided that uncle that raised you, the aunt who cared for you growing up while your parents both worked or the final grandparent that you have left don't qualify and you wont need extra time off to mourn the loss of those family members. This is just confusing to me. Bottom line, if you want to start a family and don't live in California, have a sick relative not on the list above and want to be paid market avg rates with reasonable pay raises down the line maybe look for another company to work for. If those things don't matter to you then you would be just fine working at Esri.