Has potential, but on the edge of the cliff. - Anonymous employee Ellucian Employee Review

2.0
21 June 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great vision and ideas. Serves a greater good (higher ed). Good people for the most part. Lots of women in leadership.

Cons

RIFs, RIFs, RIFs. If job security is not important to you - Go for it! However, if you hate wondering who's going next then stop - don't work for them. In the Pros I mentioned that they have a great vision and ideas - Execution on those ideas is the problem. RIFs are done to balance the budget and they RIF tenured employees to save money. Professional services is a mess as is Cloud - it seems they just don't know what they're doing. The bright spot in Ellucian is the Technology Management Division - "they do-be-say" what the rest of the company gives lip service to.

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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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