Don't apply here! - Senior Manager Ellucian Employee Review

1.0
12 Apr 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Insurance is decent, no one seems to work more than 40 hours, so work life balance is good. Flexible with office and work from home

Cons

It's very hard to get anything accomplished here. There either isn't a process and no one is willing to do extra work to create one, or the process is so convoluted and takes so long- you give up halfway through. They say they're a cloud company but that is not the case. Workday is going to put this company out of business. Middle management that does nothing is very heavy here and a lot of legacy employees are very stuck In their ways. Innovation is not key here.

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5.0
11 May 2026
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Pros

Work-life balance is amazing, great team to work with. Lots of opportunities to advance and learn new things

Cons

None. I've had an amazing experience working for Ellucian!

1.0
14 Apr 2026
Recommend
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Business outlook

Pros

Ellucian had some genuinely brilliant people. I mean real talent. Smart engineers, sharp support people who could look at a broken system and somehow see both the problem and the political disaster hiding behind it. A lot of people there cared deeply about higher ed. They understood that colleges and universities are not just “customers.” They are institutions trying to keep students moving, faculty supported, and operations alive with systems that often looked held together by duct tape, PLSQL scripts, and institutional trauma.

Cons

Then there was the C-suite. Every company has executives. That’s normal. But this group often felt less like corporate stewards and more like LinkedIn influencers who accidentally wandered into an ERP company. They seemed distant. Aloof. Not deeply engaged with the actual work, the clients, or the people carrying the weight. There was a lot of executive polish, a lot of corporate language, a lot of “vision,” but not always the kind of grounded leadership that makes employees say, “I trust these people with the future of the company.” At times, it felt like the people closest to the customers understood the business better than the people paid the most to lead it.

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