Great benefits, friendly coworkers, interesting work that keeps you engaged. Esri campus is a great atmosphere to work in. IT resources are fantastic, very easy to acquire the little things that make work easier.
Cons
Few opportunities to grow within the company. Wage stagnates once you start, annual raises barely keep pace with inflation. Mature and experienced developers also means few new development techniques and technologies are used.
Esri Response
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Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts. We will pass your feedback and suggestions along to the UI team and your HR rep.
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.