Looking for work due to troubling C-Level leadership - Anonymous employee Ellucian Employee Review

1.0
14 Mar 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Some great people. Many employees very committed to the work and their customers. If you are low enough in the organization and in one of the one or two most functional departments, you might have a positive work experience.

Cons

Incompetent and narcissistic CEO who is more concerned about his own personal media coverage than running a successful company. He has brought in mediocre talent from his past roles who jump when he says jump and repeat the same tired cliches he uses ("a successful business is like a car going around a corner with three tires squealing" - really). Many layoffs in the past year at the most senior levels in the company and the most respected, credible leaders appear to be the ones being let go. It is believed through the coffee stand conversations that the CEO and his leadership team are threatened by any real leadership or capability in the company. Current leadership decisions do not leave any confidence or sense of future for the rest of us. There are a couple of senior leaders who are capable and demonstrate integrity, but given the volatile and abusive behavior of the CEO, we wonder how long they will last.

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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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