Mass General Brigham reviews

Benefits aren't *great*, despite what some are saying. Time off is very minimal. You get three "weeks off", but all PTO is pooled, meaning if you have the misfortune of getting sick for a week, you lose a week of your vacation time. Absolutely incredible that a healthcare organization would penalize workers for taking sick time. No match on 403(b), and the cash retirement plan is nice, but only benefits those who are lifers here. Very low raises (1-3% a year) discourage the "last-ins", and younger, talented types to stay more than a few years as they were inflexible on negotiating starting salary. Lots of family members or friends-of-friends in the company, so losing the aforementioned talent means there can be a lot of mediocrity throughout the organization. No room for upward movement for many given that. Way too much policy and procedure which is largely a construct to legitimize the employment of fringe employees.

Paradoxically because Partners is so large it can be difficult to find resources specific to ones job. There is tremendous support provided for keeping the hospital systems running but for someone like me who is interested in the more interesting or research oriented areas of healthcare it is hard to find a position. Naturally there are positions funded with soft money at academic affiliates like Harvard, but that is, again, soft money, i.e. funded with research grants.