I had 6 different managers in 7 months - Anonymous employee Ellucian Employee Review

2.0
Mar 16, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Has industry leadership status, several new products and a global footprint, profitability and it's fairly competitive with salaries and benefits, so all the basics are there. A great and helpful IT help desk.

Cons

Companies are run by people, and Ellucian's people have some unfortunate traits: doing things only in their own interest, launching products that aren't ready just to meet a deadline, talking about how they live corporate values but not acting on them, perceiving initiative as a threat, rejecting input. The on boarding process left me with more questions than answers.

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Pros

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Cons

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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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