Well Meaning - Software Engineer Ellucian Employee Review

3.0
24 Apr 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Work life balance was good. Flexibility to work from home regularly once or twice a week, and even more on a case by case basis (e.g. to work from home for an entire week if you wanted to fly back home to visit family, etc.). The education software industry is a good place to be if you care about working on products that can have a positive impact on society. Ellucian is in the process of trying to evolve into a more modern company in order to be more competitive in the market with respect to attract and retaining talent.

Cons

I worked for a team that had been acquired by Ellucian. So I did not work in the main DC office or the other big R&D hub outside Philadelphia. As such I can't comment too insightfully about the culture at the rest of the company. However from my interactions with other teams I can say the inter-departmental communication and collaboration is mediocre. Management is trying at least. They recently introduced Slack company-wide as a way to improve collaboration. But it's a huge company and the only initiatives which were felt within my team were cost-cutting ones.

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5.0
11 May 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

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1.0
14 Apr 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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