Duke Health reviews

Power still resides with doctors. Hierarchy is very evident with top-down decision-making/communication. Little continuing education/development unless required for re-certification. Alot of "good old boy" networking. Low pay with single digit yearly salary increases. Little differentation between raise percentages based on performance; ie., exceeds performance raise percentage may be less than a 1% different than "meets" performance. Depending on when you are hired, you may not be eligible for a raise for over a year. When negotiating your compensation package, many of the benefits are non-negotiable; ie., time off is set based on years of service and cannot be modified.

Duke often says that although they cannot provide competitive salaries for jobs they provide numerous perks and benefits which make life better. The perks are often: educational benefits, less pressure to work "over and beyond" the call of duty, weekends off, and health benefits. Although I definitely agree with health benefits I can't easily agree to the others. Educational benefits are only for University employees -not health system employees (unless you were grandfathered in nearly 10 years ago); senior management does not have the flexibility of "not" being available - the more you are compensated the higher the expectation for availability, and weekends / nights there is an unrealized thought that you still check mail and messages. It is troubling at times to see the amount of money taken to restore hallways or for receptions yet there there is much disapproval when trying to ask for a 3% additional raise (maybe $2K) for an exceptional employee.