Good place to work for people with a lot of initiative. - Software Engineer Esri Employee Review

4.0
30 Aug 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Low stress, making a difference in the world, green, cutting edge, flat hierarchy structure, not competitive, friendly co-workers, people are always willing to help you out, users are generally pretty happy with the software we produce. A lot of emphasis on releasing quality software.

Cons

Poor management at all levels of the organization. There is a lot of dead wood. The company is getting too big for it's flat management structure. The software product is getting very large and bloated; maintaining the solution often prevents people from doing truly innovative things.

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Pros

great work culture and teammates

Cons

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2.0
12 May 2026
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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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