Ellucian reviews

3.7

66% would recommend to a friend

(1,399 total reviews)
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Laura Ipsen

74% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

Ellucian has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 1,399 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Ellucian employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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1K reviews
5.0
Apr 24, 2017

CIO

Recommend
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Pros

Ellucian offers a generous compensation and benefits package and is generally very supportive of their employees.

Cons

As an Ellucian employee at a client site, your experience may vary. Working day to day at a client site can be pleasant or very difficult, depending on the client. I can't speak for employees who work in the software development side of the company (which is much larger).

3.0
Apr 20, 2017

Higher Ed Leader

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great people, committed to higher ed, good customer base

Cons

legacy platforms, always trying to catch up, simple understanding of cloud

2.0
Apr 19, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Working from home has its own perks. Some solid thinkers and doers. Realization that they are behind the technology curve and are taking the threat to their business seriously. R&D team is pretty solid and has a can-do attitude. Have also tried to re-invigorate the culture in positive ways.

Cons

Senior leadership is just plain bad with lots of "do as I say, not as I do", turf wars, favoritism and shiny object syndrome. Focus is not always on the customer, but is in how good someone/something looks in the eyes of management/peers. Company is also very top heavy with hundreds of VPs and Directors in a hierarchical order that is very 1980 and inflexible. Top leadership talks a good games but has been ineffective in changing the culture as they don't enable trust up and down the chain. Culture is that of constant escalation to the next level because teams/individuals are not empowered or encouraged to solve problems and make mistakes in order to get better. Trying to become a cloud service provider, but does not know the concepts or requirements in order to do so. Services group is too broken to fix and be effective as the front line of client service - this comes down to deeply rooted leadership issues. Bottom line is that this is technology company that has adopted too much of its own markets propensity to blame others, be in silos, and are not able to make a decision without endless talk and buy-in from every corner of the globe.

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