Enough Promises! - VP Ellucian Employee Review

2.0
Nov 14, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Mission - Customers - Colleagues

Cons

Executive Leadership has been making promises to customers and employees for years now. They have even asked folks to use Glassdoor to promote how great everything is. Don't believe everything you read. Backfilling many, many positions cleared to sell the company last year, is NOT this huge growth statement being promoted.

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Ellucian Response
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Our culture and the open, honest and transparent way in which we communicate are several of our strengths according to the consistent feedback from our employees. Ellucian’s employee engagement and experience scores remain among the highest anywhere too. We are the market leader in education technology and we are growing. And our sponsors Blackstone and Vista, are investing in our company – in our employees, products and services - to accelerate our growth and expand globally. We serve higher education and enable student success. People First, Customer First and Cloud First aren’t just slogans, they are the values that we live by every day.

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