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Pros
"Great engineering programs and beautiful campus" (in 245 reviews)
"I enjoy the flexibility of work life balance" (in 204 reviews)
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"I mean not Stanford but hey Berkeley is good too" (in 244 reviews)
"High cost of living in the area" (in 231 reviews)
Pros & Cons are excerpts from user reviews. They are not authored by Glassdoor.
- Current Employee★★★★★Featured Review
Pros
Patient oriented, research driven, and always willing to offer mentorship
Cons
No benefits for part-time employees
- Current Employee★★★★★
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Stanford offers great undergraduate teaching and course assistant roles. You can work with amazing faculty and be compensated sufficiently.
Cons
The roles can be very hard to get
- Former Employee, more than 10 years★★★★★
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Lots of financial resources for research.
Cons
Absolutely no incentive to be a good teacher. There is a stratified system between practitioners and tenured faculty. Most faculty have long ago stopped making relevant work.
- Former Employee, more than 10 years★★★★★
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Great benefits and extras such as $800/year for training - which you can use for almost anything.
Cons
Stagnant work environment in most departments, no room for advancement. Like a caste system - professors are professors, lecturers are lecturers, staff is staff, etc.
Continue reading - Current Employee★★★★★
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good insurance and health care
Cons
understaffed and overworked but a good team
- Former Employee★★★★★
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Very flexible to work and people are good
Cons
low salary. kind of hard to live
- Current Employee★★★★★
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The pay is much higher than in general univerisities.
Cons
There could be much pressure.
- Current Employee, less than 1 year★★★★★
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Access to a huge variety of tools, as well as subject matter experts on basically everything
Cons
Pay is very good for a postdoc, but still a bit low because the Bay Area is just so expensive
- Former Employee★★★★★
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Stanford is a great place to work.
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Salaries may not be as competitive as in the private sector.
- Former Employee, more than 5 years★★★★★
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Networking, academic talks, student life
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Expensive to live, difficult to get around without car
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Stanford University has an overall rating of 4.4 out of 5, based on over 4,284 reviews left anonymously by employees. 86% of employees would recommend working at Stanford University to a friend and 76% have a positive outlook for the business. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.
86% of Stanford University employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews. Employees also rated Stanford University 3.9 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.2 for culture and values and 4.2 for career opportunities.
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