Great company to work for - Anonymous employee Ellucian Employee Review

5.0
May 17, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Now that I'm on board, I am excited to come to work every day. I feel like I'm making a difference and contributing to the big picture (enabling Student Success). The products and services Ellucian offers resonate with me. I wish I had been able to benefit from some of the solutions we provide when I was in college (it's been a while since I graduated). That said, this company has a very diverse group of employees. While there are plenty of young people here, those of us who have a bit more career tenure still fit right in. I feel like everyone I'm working with is very committed and engaged. Nice to be a part of the transformation that's going on here. They seem very committed to continuous improvement in many ways. I always like working for a company that is on the upswing. I found the recruiting and on-boarding process to be very well orchestrated and professional. I like the dynamic environment, and I hope to be here for a long time.

Cons

I'm new here, but so far, I don't have any complaints. The building in Fairfax is kind of an odd building where you have to visit people on purpose...not a lot of collaboration areas. But that's being fixed! The CEO just announced that the company is moving to a great spot near Reston Town Center in spring of 2017. Looks like an awesome building and location.

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Cons

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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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