Awesome campus, people are smart, everything i learned literally put me leaps and bounds ahead of my peers. ArcGIS is huge....learn it and opportunities open.
Silicon Valley in the Inland Empire.
Cons
None. For being a first 'big boy' role, they pay you to literally learn.
Esri Response
10y
So happy to hear your Esri internship was a great learning experience. At the end of every summer, we find we've learned a great deal from you all as well! We truly value the contributions our 100+ interns make every year. Good luck in your future endeavors.
Esri pays your health insurance.
A few extra holidays that other companies may not offer.
Cons
-Below average pay for California. Already a struggle living out here due to cost of living.
-Support services is a mess. We have to bend over backwards for customers always teetering on scope of support. Might as not even have those guidelines anymore if it's a constant battle for internal resources to back you.
-Constant releases of software that breaks customer workflows. Too many bugs. Lack of QA.
-Whats the point of middle management if all decisions have to come from higher ups that have no understanding of supports day by day.
-Unwillingness to let senior employees work from home. And if you do work from home they hold it against you if you want to apply to an internal position. Almost like a thinly veiled threat.
-Other teams feel the need to steam roll support sometimes, often leading to fragmented relationships.
-Lastly there is way too much work and never enough people.