Starving Staff! Think Twice, Over rated. We are Under paid & Under valued - Anonymous employee Esri Employee Review

1.0
Mar 17, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Pretty campus, great relationships with staff, paid benefits (but high deductibles), nice offices and relaxed dress code.

Cons

Extremely poor salaries, annual reviews consistently lower then 3% with continual revenue growth, decreases to profit sharing even after a stellar year. This company DOES NOT believe in giving back to employees at all. Its extremely disappointing year after year to see Jack & Laura giving millions away to charities and nothing extra to its employees right here that struggle financially. Reading that esri is making top lists for happy staff is a joke. Ask the staff, that is not the setimate. Being told benefits are paid for so its a great company to work for is no longer relevant. Costs of living continue to rise with salaries staying so low many non exempt staff are having to work two jobs just to make ends meet. Human Resource department is extremely inefficient and quite frankly rude with a secret society attitude. They do nothing to assist employees with complaints. Working as non-exempt staff is like being second class here. Its assumed your not worth anything compared to exempt. With no advancement in carreers here also, EVERYTHING IS CONSIDERED LATERAL. Any switch to positions regardless of responsibility increase comes with no additional salary. The management staff here is very elite with their own interests at heart and not the companies. Policies are redundant and any suggestions to more efficiency are ignored.

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Cons

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