Good, could easily be great - R&D Team Ellucian Employee Review

3.0
Mar 5, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great people, great vertical, great location, above-average remuneration, great learning opportunities, great opportunities to engage with clients, patient client base, clients are mostly joint-stakeholders with the company on product development.

Cons

* Constantly changing technology policies- flex, zk, java, jquery... * Strategy seems confused and trying to do it 'all-at-once' - cloud, mobile, accessibility... * Revolving-door higher management - top management seldom stays around long enough to implement their strategy or technology vision, probably the reason for the above-mentioned cons. * Clueless HR - seems to exist just to do whatever middle management wants, irrespective of whether it helps employees or not. Management more focused on generating buzz as a means for career advancement rather than work on meaningful employee-friendly policies. * The air around the Bangalore office is more like a vendor company for the US office rather than an equal development office. Primarily because of the attitudes of Bangalore management who have never worked elsewhere and cut their teeth under such an outdated 'outsourced' IT climate. * Middle and senior management at the Bangalore office have been around forever and have no clue how a modern IT company works. Power structures are well entrenched and jealously guarded.

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5.0
May 11, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Work-life balance is amazing, great team to work with. Lots of opportunities to advance and learn new things

Cons

None. I've had an amazing experience working for Ellucian!

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1.0
Apr 14, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Ellucian had some genuinely brilliant people. I mean real talent. Smart engineers, sharp support people who could look at a broken system and somehow see both the problem and the political disaster hiding behind it. A lot of people there cared deeply about higher ed. They understood that colleges and universities are not just “customers.” They are institutions trying to keep students moving, faculty supported, and operations alive with systems that often looked held together by duct tape, PLSQL scripts, and institutional trauma.

Cons

Then there was the C-suite. Every company has executives. That’s normal. But this group often felt less like corporate stewards and more like LinkedIn influencers who accidentally wandered into an ERP company. They seemed distant. Aloof. Not deeply engaged with the actual work, the clients, or the people carrying the weight. There was a lot of executive polish, a lot of corporate language, a lot of “vision,” but not always the kind of grounded leadership that makes employees say, “I trust these people with the future of the company.” At times, it felt like the people closest to the customers understood the business better than the people paid the most to lead it.

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