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4.0
Nov 13, 2020
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Ellucian is a gem that has been through many rounds of mergers and acquisitions over the years including name change and is poised for reinventing themselves to support HigherEd with Cloudbased solutions besides the traditional on-premise solutions. - Tightly well-knit community of professionals willing to share and collaborate - Very matured in processes/tools and methodologies that one expects of companies that have been around. - Remote working was an option even before COVID and is now even more an option - Good vacation policy, health benefits and capable management leading the house

Cons

- Some struggles leading to chaos and loss of customer satisfaction, primarily stemming from the evolution of Ellucian to a premium mature cloud based software solution provider - 401K match could be better and lack of stock options which is often available with other software companies

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

Cons

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1.0
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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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