Esri Reviews

Cons

Advancement is slow, but management does tend to work with you to help prepare you for your next role you might be interested in.

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The training process is drawn out a bit too much.

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Difficult to get to know the lay of the land when you are new. Not a lot of structured information is shared regarding who's who, processes, points of contact, or org charts. But, it forces you to talk to multiple people - not so good for efficiency but good for getting know people face to face.

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So unorganized. Lower management and senior management/HR were never on the same page. No communication at all. Got to be very confusing and frustrating.

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Good solid work may not always get recognized or rewarded.

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I don't live in Redlands
turnover is low - formal leadership positions don't open up often (but there are plenty of opportunities for project-based leadership)

Cons

Where do I begin?
Too many employees as compared to the work delivered - many of them are poorly managed and do not contribute fairly to the company’s growth..
Staff over 15-20 years with Esri, barely come to work or deliver anything, but stay employed for the benefits and to get a salary, and this affects the wage budgets for other staff who actually do the work.
There are too many managers who barely move out of roles and so the flat structure translates to little or no growth for other staff.
Although, if you are related to a director/manager, or are a ‘favorite’, you’ll go places without really working.
HR is painfully slow and incompetent, biased (pro-management) and hence, unapproachable.
We lose more staff than we hire because HR doesn’t have a Retention Unit to work with resigning staff, then they lose time and money replacing valuable staff.
Redlands was cheap in 60-70s, not anymore, but the pay scales haven’t increased proportionately and the annual increments are minuscule if not, unfair and even insulting at times!

Cons

low pay, no nearby opportunity, hard to gain managerial experience

Cons

- HR (Human Resources) is more like "Company Resources." The HR team looks out for the companies best interest and is not in support of the individuals within Esri at all. No matter the situation or disagreement, HR will always be in support for the company plain and simple.
- Growth is not supported or discussed. If you apply to Esri, depending on which team, be prepared to have that role for years with no change to your pay what so ever.
- If you are looking for a possible financial opportunity, Esri is not the company for you. There are "yearly increases" that come at Esri, however if you team did not perform, or your manager made poor decision, your team will not see an increase. If that .50 cents is important to you however, you may make an argument as to why you deserve it while sitting with your manager and HR.
- Esri will promote individuals based off years served at Esri and not based off experience. You can see someone being promoted to Marketing Director who's spend 15 years at Esri as an Engineer rather than promoting a 5 year Marketing Manger to Marketing Director. It makes no sense.
- The company does not believe in peer reviews. They have no conducted one manager peer review in 50 years. This is why terrible manager continue to have a job at Esri.

Cons

Very low pay. Even new hires fresh grad get paid better than current employees.