Helpful people with great values - Anonymous employee Esri Employee Review
4.0
Jun 17, 2020
Anonymous employee
Current employee, more than 10 years
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
I Enjoy the entrepreneurial spirit, smart colleagues, wonderful health insurance, diversity and inclusion initiative and learning something new every day.
Cons
Not much vertical movement, create your own career path, but some guidance coming soon on this.
Esri Response
5y
Thank you for your 10+ years with Esri! It’s rewarding to hear you recognize our great benefits package and the opportunity we all have to learn every day. At Esri, career growth is not always defined as a “move up” – it can also mean taking on additional responsibilities within your current team. We encourage you to reach out to your HR business partner to determine what career growth at Esri might look like for you. We appreciate you taking time to provide us with your feedback.
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.