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Brown University reviews

4.4

83% would recommend to a friend

(1,558 total reviews)
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Christina Paxson

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65% positive business outlook

Brown University has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 1,558 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Brown 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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2K reviews
2.0
Jan 31, 2017

Hostile and intimidating workplace

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Excellent benefits, hours, PTO, Healthcare

Cons

UNIVERSITY EMERGENCY MEDICINE FOUNDATION IS A hostile workplace. Management will do anything they can to cover their butts. The do not follow employment laws, ADA Laws, FMLA laws. No progressive discipline. They fire anyone for any reason. They consistently use the "you are an employee at will, we can fire for any reason at any time", to the extent that it effects employees morale. Most administrative employees are concerned about being terminated at anytime because throughout the years it has happened on a regular basis. Physicians are treated completely differently than administrative employee. Management will lie, create false documentation, coerece other employee to lie and verbally abuse and harass and intimidate administrative personnel to get them to do what they want. Unprofessional managerial behavior. Beware!

2.0
Apr 26, 2018

Need to get with the times

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Pros

* Flexible work schedules * Winter break off * Quasi summer hours

Cons

* Classes are only fee if they pertain to the department you work for * Salaries for Office Administrative staff are a joke; the university needs to be more realistic about the cost of living * Managers/Chair/Department heads need to trust their employees to do their jobs and not micromanage every little thing.

3.0
Feb 3, 2017

Prof at Brown

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Pros

academic freedom; bright students; location

Cons

unequal pay for women professors; administrative nepotism; entitled students

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