Good place for people who love challenges and don't like doing the same thing year after year. - Software Developer Esri Employee Review

5.0
Jan 16, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

The PEOPLE - very motivated, interesting, educated people. You get to work with the brightest minds in the GIS field from all over the world. Lots of challenging projects, and the abiltiy to move to different projects. ESRI gives $3000/year education benefits to everyone, plus they give several full scholarships to Univ. of Redlands every year through a competition.

Cons

Can be chaotic. Managers often change the goals in the middle of projects. You may have to work a lot of overtime, so it's no place for slackers. Communication between departments is lacking. Sometimes you find out that another department is doing exactly the same project you are doing. Each department acts like an independent company, sometimes competing with each other.

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Cons

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Pros

Esri pays your health insurance. A few extra holidays that other companies may not offer.

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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