An OK company to work for, lots of change but no real growth in the 10+ years here. - Project Manager Ellucian Employee Review

3.0
Oct 21, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Co-workers generally committed to doing good work. Industry leader, industry leading conference (if you get to participate). Many positions remote eligible. Decent benefits but not industry leading by a longshot. Good compensation and time off benefits. New CEO might be a Pro, time will tell if it moves to the CON column.

Cons

Company divisions exist in several silos that are nearly impossible to cross when needed. Professional services utilization targets are very high, resources are overbooked as the norm. Little opportunity for movement once inside the company. Company seems to like change for the sake of change, nothing over the last 5-8 years has resulted in any significant growth. Mid and High level management is in duck and cover mode most of the time as a result, so little if any of the vision du jour gets implemented.

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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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