Corporate employees fair better than offsite employees - Programme Analyst Ellucian Employee Review

2.0
Nov 18, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Three weeks vacation from the time you start, i.e., you don't have to be employed for 5 years or more.

Cons

Everything is a secret regarding salaries. I have asked HR several times to provide the salary range ranges my job title. I also asked in relation to a job submission for a different department. Each time, I received no response from HR, not even an acknowledgement that they received my request. In addition, you never get any type of response to job submissions for internal postings. Even if you are turned down, some sort of communication is better than nothing at all. Another problem is that everything is so compartmentalized that if you are not in a division that cares about what you do, you almost feel like the proverbial red-headed step child. Also, there is usually no training budget depending on the size of the staff at client locations. The money for a region is allocated the same across all schools. Therefore, if you have 10 people at a location, then everyone most likely gets to have training. However, if you are at a location that has 50 or more employees, then you may get training once every 5 years to allow everyone to have a chance.

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5.0
May 11, 2026
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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
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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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