Great president, poor management and pay - Anonymous employee Esri Employee Review

3.0
May 10, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Jack D has an amazing vision. Benefits are decent. Lower stress environment if you have the right management. People generally believe in the company's vision so they have the same goals for level of customer service.

Cons

Poor management, they choose people who don't know how to manage people and don't train them. The pay is not great unless you live in areas that are cheap, as they haven't figured out how to pay for the market of the employees location. They aren't keeping up with large companies in terms of paid leave for anything beyond birth mothers/fathers. No career path or advancement opportunities for most employees.

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Cons

-Below average pay for California. Already a struggle living out here due to cost of living. -Support services is a mess. We have to bend over backwards for customers always teetering on scope of support. Might as not even have those guidelines anymore if it's a constant battle for internal resources to back you. -Constant releases of software that breaks customer workflows. Too many bugs. Lack of QA. -Whats the point of middle management if all decisions have to come from higher ups that have no understanding of supports day by day. -Unwillingness to let senior employees work from home. And if you do work from home they hold it against you if you want to apply to an internal position. Almost like a thinly veiled threat. -Other teams feel the need to steam roll support sometimes, often leading to fragmented relationships. -Lastly there is way too much work and never enough people.

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