People are very nice but work is not challenging - Anonymous employee Esri Employee Review

2.0
Feb 6, 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Laid back environment, people are nice, nobody gets on your case...there are some very smart people with opportunities to learn from them, the technology is very interesting with lots of future prospects. The employers are very employee oriented people.

Cons

No encouragement, no feedback or prospects of growth, hire seniors from outside instead. pretty random management style which is antiquated, lack direction, and depends on the whims of people, no improvement with work situation, have to deal with same people who dont do their jobs. no consequences if people dont do their jobs, so you have to keep taking the same stress over and over again.

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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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