Ellucian reviews

3.7

68% would recommend to a friend

(1,400 total reviews)
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Laura Ipsen

74% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

Ellucian has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 1,400 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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2.0
Apr 19, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Working from home has its own perks. Some solid thinkers and doers. Realization that they are behind the technology curve and are taking the threat to their business seriously. R&D team is pretty solid and has a can-do attitude. Have also tried to re-invigorate the culture in positive ways.

Cons

Senior leadership is just plain bad with lots of "do as I say, not as I do", turf wars, favoritism and shiny object syndrome. Focus is not always on the customer, but is in how good someone/something looks in the eyes of management/peers. Company is also very top heavy with hundreds of VPs and Directors in a hierarchical order that is very 1980 and inflexible. Top leadership talks a good games but has been ineffective in changing the culture as they don't enable trust up and down the chain. Culture is that of constant escalation to the next level because teams/individuals are not empowered or encouraged to solve problems and make mistakes in order to get better. Trying to become a cloud service provider, but does not know the concepts or requirements in order to do so. Services group is too broken to fix and be effective as the front line of client service - this comes down to deeply rooted leadership issues. Bottom line is that this is technology company that has adopted too much of its own markets propensity to blame others, be in silos, and are not able to make a decision without endless talk and buy-in from every corner of the globe.

4.0
Apr 17, 2017

Current Employee

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good to be with the company

Cons

Changes and new venture capitalist

1.0
Apr 12, 2017

Don't apply here!

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Insurance is decent, no one seems to work more than 40 hours, so work life balance is good. Flexible with office and work from home

Cons

It's very hard to get anything accomplished here. There either isn't a process and no one is willing to do extra work to create one, or the process is so convoluted and takes so long- you give up halfway through. They say they're a cloud company but that is not the case. Workday is going to put this company out of business. Middle management that does nothing is very heavy here and a lot of legacy employees are very stuck In their ways. Innovation is not key here.

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