Good for a mom and pop, terrible for a tech company - Anonymous employee Esri Employee Review

2.0
Dec 26, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Nice campus and facilities, generally nice people. Good work life-balance. Okay for people who enjoy small towns and living in a bubble. Overcompensates with grandiose parties. Interns and new employee's (less than 2 years) "shielded" from company faults.

Cons

Change does not happen at this company, if you don't believe me look back to 5 years ago. The same exact issues. Nothing ground-breaking is happening at this company. No prioritization with projects. May have some of the worst managers in a large tech company. Finances towards necessary software and career advancement are insufficient and micro-managed. Compensation is not competitive. Lack of diversity in management positions. Department communication is horrendous. Power struggles everywhere. HR is aware of company problems but unable to elicit change. Great employees leave unless they have ties to the inland empire.

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Pros

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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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