Great place to work, but very low pay. - Software Development Engineer (SDE) Esri Employee Review

4.0
Feb 7, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Esri, has been great. Non-toxic environment. Free healthcare (not the best healthcare but it's free). Hourly, which means, you can work OT when required or needed. Options to work remote. Beautiful Redlands office.

Cons

This is hard, I do love working for ESRI, but their pay is just way below average. If their pay was average then the turn over rate would lower. The cost of living has skyrocketed and they're not keeping up with the times. So... If I leave I'll have to deal with public companies that don't care about you but you'll make more, if I stay I'll get to enjoy non-toxic environment, and work and life balance. It's hard, because every month I have a mortgage payment.

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5.0
May 13, 2026
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Pros

Positive and encouraging team morale

Cons

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2.0
May 12, 2026
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Pros

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.

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