Georgetown University reviews

Overwhelming favoritism, as a result the office is teeming with upper-middle class young adults in their first office job whose only real commitment is to the graduate degree the benefits provide. Strangely enough, those that came to the position due to dedication to their career fall into a de-facto second class. Pay is not competitive enough to retain employees for long if they are not interested in continuing education. High turnover. Insular staff factions duplicating effort. Decision by committee and ageism stifle then later recycle fresh ideas. Trapped in 20th century paradigm of squeezing blood from a turnip in a gray box for 8 hours straight. As employees leave due to lack of flexibility, management consolidates their workload onto remaining employees with no intent to rehire. Creating a feedback loop of ever-faster dissolution. Raises are periodically frozen as a response to economic distress. When raises aren't frozen, there are no cost of living increases, only "merit" to which the maximum is 2.5% and rarely earned. Your pay is determined in order to conform to a pay schedule that doesn't keep pace with the market. Your grade will undermine your potential for promotion. You will earn less over time.

Jesuit values are a joke at Georgetown. It's all lip service. The administration does not care about the staff. The university is drowning in debt from the failed Capitol Campus. The lack of leadership is horrifying. I've worked in higher education for 20 years. Georgetown is all about the bottom line because it's done an abysmal job of fundraising and recruiting true leaders. The low salaries and toxic work environment will continue as long as the current administration is in place. It is not surprising that there is a high rate of turnover among staff and administrators who are good leaders. Someone should FOIA the numerous grievances and lawsuits filed by employees and students. They settle to keep the "brand" intact and do nothing to address the issues raised or work with bad managers to become good managers. This is an issue from the top down.