Esri reviews

3.7

68% would recommend to a friend

(1,513 total reviews)
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Jack Dangermond

79% approve of CEO

66% positive business outlook

Esri has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 1,513 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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2.0
Jul 5, 2012

Wonderful to begin with. Exhausting and demoralizing at the end.

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Pros

Great campus, great ideals, opportunity for freedom to work your own way, many good people. Can be great pay if the quirky pay by hour system is played well.

Cons

Bad politics caused by Jack's "management by chaos" theories. Hypocrisy - if you're going to market yourself as a "doing good" company, best the internal attitudes mirror that - they don't. Arrogance - to staff, to non-worshipping users, and to anyone who "doesn't get it". Awful HR... (and the fact that there are two HR departments at war with each other is not good)... just stone age attitudes to motivation. Absolutely no possibility of promotion or sideways moves. Jack is a great guy... but all this is on his watch. I can no longer approve of his continued leadership of this company.

1.0
Feb 5, 2025
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Pros

None unfortunately, it has been my worst experience ever!

Cons

This company sent me an official job offer with a start date that they were supposed to be committed to and they made me leave my current job, but one day before the join date they contacted me telling me that they will postpone my join date for one week as they needed to do an international background check that I didn't know anything about I thought it's a regular background check, I don't know if it's a raciest thing because I'm not originally from the united states, but anyway they kept on postponing my join date for a full month saying that they need every single thing to be complete else they won't let me join, they asked for a paystub or a contract from every single employee I've worked with for the past 13 years, and I had to go through hell of calls to get them these data, and after submitting all the data they requested, they told me that they will get back to me after one extra week but it took them two weeks just to get back to me and their response was that they decided my job offer and that I can't join the company, without giving any reasons of why? though all the documents they requested I sent, and I tried reaching out to understand why did they decline me by calling them and sending them emails but they didn't get back to me! SO NOT ONLY DID THEY MADE ME LEAVE MY JOB AND KEPT ME HOLDING FOR A FULL MONTH WITH NO INCOME, THEIR CALL WAS TO JUST DECLINE THEIR OFFER AND LEAVE ME WITH NO WORK AND UNEMPLOYED, AND I HAVE A WIFE AND CHILDREN THAT THEY ARE TOTALLY RESPONSIBLE FROM ME AND NOW I'M WITH NO INCOME THANKS TO THEM AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO!! They just destroyed my family, thank you so much ESRI!

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