Do not join Ellucian - at middle or senior level. only join at junior level. - At the Senior Level Ellucian Employee Review

2.0
29 Aug 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Good work place in terms of design (does it really matter that much?). Good for junior level only.

Cons

First of all, most of the Managers (software dev managers) are useless here. they do not know how to manage the team. they have just evolved as technical folks and company promoted them just because they were the tech leads and needed a promotion. they make the working environment so hostile and nobody takes any action on it. management and HR are informed about all these work issues, but there is absolutely no action on it. second, powers lies with US executives. simple! compare Manager in india and equivalent in US, US managers would always be more powerful. Old timers in Ellucian have become pain point here. they donot have any new ideas. they just change the UI of application and think that they have done amazing stuff, but it doesnot change the user experience. they need to see other enterprise application. Ellucian feels good initially but sucks the blood out slowly, ofcourse there might be some good team but most of the part, it is just bad. application becomes so complex, nobody would know the answer, New business analysts are all less than 5 years old exp and they donot know much about writing the specification, and it becomes such huge burden for product managers. now again, NEVER join as Product manager. I have seen them struggling with sky high expectation and team doesnot give them respect. Product manager based out of US has all the commands. so much changes keep happening at uppper and upper mid level that it is very shaky to be here. CPO and CMO were fired for no apparent reason. last but most important, they pay poorly and argue that they have done enough market research to know the salary range and would justify it. But, it sucks.

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5.0
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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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