Duke Health reviews

To advance, you may need to play a political game. Advancement in the same position can be rare - this means that advancement usually comes in the form of switching from one job to another within Duke. Politics are worse than other places I have worked and it is pretty much a requirement that to advance you must play the game. This can be very frustrating at times and especially to new hires. Another downside is the "dead weight". Job security is fantastic but it works both ways - meaning there are some very incompetent people working (again in IT) who seemingly cannot be fired. At best, they are shuffled to a different position and await retirement. This can make working at Duke difficult when one takes "fairness" into perspective.

Still, it would be hard to call Duke a "well-rounded" institution; in the biomedical sciences there aren't any Nobel Laureates, as such its Basic Sciences, while superior to most universities, is still a step behind the Harvard's of the world. It's hard to know if this is a trend across most research institutions, but Departmental Chairman seem to have a diminishing status at Duke.