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Vanderbilt University Reviews

4.2

82% would recommend to a friend

(2,089 total reviews)
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Daniel Diermeier

79% approve of CEO

71% positive business outlook

Vanderbilt University has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 2,089 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Vanderbilt University employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
9 Nov 2017
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Pros

Good pay and medical benefits. If you're lucky, your manager will be inattentive enough to allow you to work.

Cons

Extremely political work environment. More time is spent making yourself look like you're making progress than actually making progress. Management loves to brag about "open-minded" culture, but it couldn't be further from the truth. Terrible hierarchy where faculty are treated like royalty and staff are expendable. Any attempts to improve efficiency are shot down in order to create more work. The worst part is the haughty attitude everyone seems to have about it all. Prestige and popularity is more important than results.

1.0
28 Sept 2014
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Pros

Good Location in a nice neighborhood in Nashville.

Cons

The management is underhanded, Parasitic and overpaid. The university loses money due to farcical administrative blunders, then they make up for it by cutting benefits, pay, vacation/sick time and retirement. The cuts are strickly carried out on lower level employees. Worse still, they make the cuts in 'tricky' ways, thinking that staff are too dumb to notice. The university has a snobbish culture, wherein every faculty thinks they are a 'star', even as most of them do unimpressive work, play publication and grant games, and schmooze around instead of doing good science, scholarship or teaching. The pay seems ok for academic work, but rent, housing, food and other costs are quite high in Nashville, making the pay effectively poor unless you want to spend a lot of time commuting on congested highways.

1.0
21 Sept 2014

reduced benefits, low salary

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Pros

low house price in nearby counties

Cons

continuously reduced benefits on salary, sick hours and personal days. few sources for children, high food price and spending tax. Working environment is worse.

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