Pros
Aside from executives, most of the people at Ellucian are genuinely, kind and smart people who are very open to collaboration. Benefits are great for the industry, and if you come in negotiating your salary you can get good pay. It's a large company, so you're meeting new people every day. What is hurting the company isn't the people. My managers were all amazing, gave me grace when I needed it, and were really focused on helping me grow. I really loved my colleagues and what I was doing, but it was difficult to still do my work when it was clouded by pressure from executives who changed their minds a lot and then blamed managers. Your experience at Ellucian is really team dependent.
Cons
Horrible executive management. Too focused on AI this, and AI that to really think about the consequences it will have (and has had) on their employees. They're always looking for the next best thing, and higher ups are just focused on stroking their egos. One executive I'm baffled by how they still have a job since everyone cannot stand working with them. This person is fake and manages three key teams at Ellucian and needs to micromanage every single thing. I'm appalled at the just behavior that just gets excused because "well that's just him." The people at Ellucian are really great and want to collaborate, but there is too much silo-ed work that really hurts the company from actually doing great work. Executives can't decide on a mission, they argue among each other, and really are just focused on making themselves look good without actually being genuine or caring about their employees. It's really so transparently fake. Executives are not aligned on what Ellucian actually does and the narrative they want to say. They want others to do their work for them, but don't actively want to do it themselves. They are doing quiet layoffs that are leaving teams with more work and minimal direction.