Esri reviews

3.7

67% would recommend to a friend

(1,511 total reviews)
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Jack Dangermond

79% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

Esri has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 1,511 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Esri employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
Nov 7, 2025

All the world's a stage

Recommend
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Pros

Amazing coworkers and uplifting messaging about positive impact on the future to hold on to. Decent health insurance that is fully covered. Jack really believes in the power of GIS, which can be inspiring.

Cons

Requires constant theater and almost nothing makes sense strategically or ethically. More important to have a reputation for being a yes-man than it is to actually get work done, so plan to spend more time building internal slide decks about how great you're doing than you do actually doing impactful work or helping customers. Excessively detailed core competencies that are enforced in an inconsistent way along gender and exempt/non-exempt lines, based almost entirely on how much your direct manager likes you. Uses young, unexperienced employees to do the majority of the real labor in office 5 days a week while leaders who seem to lack any social awareness call into meetings virtually from their home offices and drop corporate jargon and double-speak until it quite literally makes you start to question reality. Expect working here to damage your health and to watch top performers be burnt or managed out one after the other while big talkers get promoted. Failure to get with the times re: fair industry pay, transparency, and social issues. Asks for feedback and then punishes anyone idealistic enough to think they really want it. Abyssmal change management and shifting goal posts due to in-fighting between leaders.

4.0
Oct 12, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

great and supportive environment. the flexible working arrangement is great

Cons

the health benefit is considered very low.

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