An organization with a heart - Anonymous employee Esri Employee Review
4.0
Mar 5, 2016
Anonymous employee
Current employee, more than 10 years
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
Been with Esri for a decade now. In addition to being a good place to grow professionally, the company also does a decent job in taking care of its employees and their families (health benefits/visa requirements/etc). The company is quite supportive of growing one's academic career in tandem with one's work. The work done here has a global impact, which makes it personally very fulfilling to work here.
Cons
Pay scale can be more competitive. After 10 years, with a static vacation slab and increments that are low, there is little incentive to keep long-term employees.
Esri Response
10y
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Esri definitely supports the continuing education of its employees; it's a great benefit! Late last year we launched a new program to give employees the opportunity to not only hear from leaders throughout the company, but interact and connect with them as well. Read more about this program and upcoming events on the employee blog.
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.