Pros
- Esri does a great job in recruiting and hiring smart talented individuals. - The company is large and within the GIS industry is highly well known - Beautiful campus within Redlands. - A lot of tools and technologies at your exposure depending on the team you work for. These tools can help you gain greater expereince in things like GIS, Adobe, Workfront etc. - Insurance is covered by the company, this is a big contributor as to why some employees stay here for years and years.
Cons
- HR (Human Resources) is more like "Company Resources." The HR team looks out for the companies best interest and is not in support of the individuals within Esri at all. No matter the situation or disagreement, HR will always be in support for the company plain and simple. - Growth is not supported or discussed. If you apply to Esri, depending on which team, be prepared to have that role for years with no change to your pay what so ever. - If you are looking for a possible financial opportunity, Esri is not the company for you. There are "yearly increases" that come at Esri, however if you team did not perform, or your manager made poor decision, your team will not see an increase. If that .50 cents is important to you however, you may make an argument as to why you deserve it while sitting with your manager and HR. - Esri will promote individuals based off years served at Esri and not based off experience. You can see someone being promoted to Marketing Director who's spend 15 years at Esri as an Engineer rather than promoting a 5 year Marketing Manger to Marketing Director. It makes no sense. - The company does not believe in peer reviews. They have no conducted one manager peer review in 50 years. This is why terrible manager continue to have a job at Esri.