New opportunities; big impact; mission-based - Marketing Ellucian Employee Review

4.0
Jan 19, 2018
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Pros

This company is one that has a long history, strong market position but has been a vanilla or blank slate in terms of brand, managing expectations and relationships. It is a company that has not only a DNA centered on giving back, having an impact in our industry of higher education and do all we can to make the best outcomes for our customers and their students; but it also is working hard to drive new innovation and new impact. We have a strong, new executive team with an AMAZING new CEO - who is a woman. We have 4 women now on our executive team, which you can see the benchmark stats on what that will mean for our bottomline, impact and future growth.

Cons

We are learning how to deal with change, manage change and be proactive vs. reactive about change. We have used 'too much change' as a crutch for not figuring how to exceed expectation or continually improve. I also think we tend focus too much on what is not going right vs. the bright spots around where we are winning, improving and making a difference in our customers' and their students' lives.

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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!

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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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