Trying hard to be a 'great place to work'. Only trying, never capable of achieving! - Senior Software Developer Ellucian Employee Review

2.0
Mar 18, 2017
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Pros

You get paid on time

Cons

1) A company that wants to be a 'Great place to work' although there's nothing great about it and the management is not doing anything to make it any better 2) the leadership team believes that incapable managers will work better if promoted to the next level 3) Highly incompetent enabler functions, most of which are the finance and payroll teams. Striving very hard to bring down the employee benefit standards 4) this is one of those companies that terminates employees for "FICTIONAL" performance and behavioral issues but can retain managers even after multiple employees complain about harassment from their immediate manager. To make it easy to understand, not one, not two, but three finance team members, good performers, were let go because they spoke the truth about their manager 5) if you have to convince your manager about something start the sentence with 'employee engagement survey'

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5.0
May 11, 2026
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Pros

Work-life balance is amazing, great team to work with. Lots of opportunities to advance and learn new things

Cons

None. I've had an amazing experience working for Ellucian!

1.0
Apr 14, 2026
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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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