Company culture not what you read on the website - NOT In Software Development Esri Employee Review

2.0
Sep 19, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The software and the gis community are exciting and always changing. There are lots of good hardworking people to work with who are willing to share what they know to help you learn. If you are in software development or software engineering you get treated really good.

Cons

The hardworking people are invisible to senior management because middle management gets in the way. Alot of people in middle management are there because they know someone or because they've been there so long, but they don't know what they're doing. They only care about their own agendas. It's hurting the company, the employees, and in the long run it will hurt the customers.

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Cons

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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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