Pros
Ellucian has a fast paced culture and you need to be able to quickly get yourself up to speed. There are many opportunities for advancement and hard work is absolutely recognized. Within professional services you will have the chance to work with institutions around the world, impacting the lives of students each day.
Cons
In trying to move to the Cloud, Ellucian has pushed many of its seasoned consultants out, instead focusing on straight from college hire programs who can work for less and help keep overall consulting and implementation costs lower. Higher Education is a difficult vertical to work in, with low budgets, endless politics, and absolute resistance to change. Ellucian has difficulty holding institutions accountable for their own actions, instead acquiescing to even the smallest complaints and responding with additional work for their ever thinning group of seasoned consultants, who are oftentimes cleaning up after the straight-from-college hires who are still learning. Ellucian is owned by a private equity firm and changes hands frequently. The goal of any P/E firm is to inflate value, squeezing every possibly cent from the business it has acquired, so that it can then be resold at a profit. The P/E mentality impacts everything from salary increases, to bonus payouts, to internal meetings and travel. The pressure is high and, if you cannot push yourself to perform to your fullest 24/7/365, while setting limits and managing up, Ellucian is not the place for you.