Ellucian reviews

3.7

67% would recommend to a friend

(1,398 total reviews)
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Laura Ipsen

76% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

Ellucian has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 1,398 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Ellucian employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.6 stars).

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3.0
Apr 24, 2017

Well Meaning

Recommend
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Pros

Work life balance was good. Flexibility to work from home regularly once or twice a week, and even more on a case by case basis (e.g. to work from home for an entire week if you wanted to fly back home to visit family, etc.). The education software industry is a good place to be if you care about working on products that can have a positive impact on society. Ellucian is in the process of trying to evolve into a more modern company in order to be more competitive in the market with respect to attract and retaining talent.

Cons

I worked for a team that had been acquired by Ellucian. So I did not work in the main DC office or the other big R&D hub outside Philadelphia. As such I can't comment too insightfully about the culture at the rest of the company. However from my interactions with other teams I can say the inter-departmental communication and collaboration is mediocre. Management is trying at least. They recently introduced Slack company-wide as a way to improve collaboration. But it's a huge company and the only initiatives which were felt within my team were cost-cutting ones.

2.0
Mar 30, 2016

Disjointed & Unfriendly

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

-Had a Halloween party once. -Popcorn (seriously). -The desks can be raised and lowered to accommodate employees of varying statures and postures.

Cons

-Departmental management is absolutely the worst I have ever encountered in my 20+ years in the tech field. Laughable to the point of being nearly unbelievable. It's as if they try to suck. -No team feeling whatsoever. You're on an island. -When asked to participate or assist with duties slightly outside of their roles, some employees demonstrated extremely negative attitudes.

1.0
Mar 22, 2015

Total chaos full of lies

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Pros

Working from home. Low level people are very nice and concerned about their clients.

Cons

Another round of layoffs. You let go ten percent and you don't even tell the rest of the company. Established a curve that during reviews, 30% would be above average, 60% would be average, and 10 % below average. Raises would depend on which group you were rated into, and how much you make compared to the average salary for your position. We were led to believe that 10% would get no raise; turns out they were fired instead.

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