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Great people, opportunities and work/life balance, mediocre-to-poor compensation. - Anonymous employee Georgetown University Employee Review

4.0
Oct 20, 2015
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Pros

As this review titles suggests, the most of the people you will work with here are fantastic. There is a genuine sense of family and camaraderie that permeates nearly every corner of Georgetown that you just don't get everywhere. This being a higher education institution you are bombarded with encouragement to pursue continuing education and professional development opportunities. This encouragement is not superfluous as the University offers a general tuition assistance benefit that all full-time employees vet into within one year of employment.

Cons

Far and away, the largest con is compensation. Base pay is relatively small and budget-first attitudes foster an initial inclination by management to hire and reclassify positions on-the-cheap. Benefits are decent but core compensatory incentives are really lacking. No bonuses or equity sharing an merit-based pay increases (meaning raises are commensurate to effort put forth) top out around 3% - therefore in order to qualify for a pay increase that barely keep up with annual practical cost-of-living increases.

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