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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center reviews

3.9

68% would recommend to a friend

(3,899 total reviews)
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Selwyn M. Vickers

67% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 3,899 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Healthcare industry (3.4 stars).

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2.0
May 7, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

You'll definitely get hands-on research experience, similar to that of a research-oriented masters program.

Cons

Clinical research coordinators are undervalued and undercompensated. If you're in this role, know that you will do most of the work for a study (or multiple studies) and get little to no praise or recognition. Most PIs are concerned only with their study accrual numbers and getting their next grant. Burnout is possible in this position. This position is largely seen as a stepping stone to getting into a Masters or PhD program. If that's not one of your goals, I would advise against going this route. However, if you are really inspired by the mission, you might enjoy it. If you are detail-oriented, hyper-organized, self-motivated and prefer behind-the-scenes work you might like this job but only for a year or two.

2.0
Dec 7, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

-Great healthcare benefits -Good paid vacation -Reputable cancer center -Invaluable healthcare related experience

Cons

Speaking from my personal experience working as a CRC in the Clinical Trials Office (ABMT), the large amount of work, the lack of guidance and training can make this job challenging. I unfortunately was assigned a very unhelpful and unfriendly supervisor and this greatly undermined my success in this company. A lot of the CRC's complain about how unhappy they are, the workload is high, there is little to no training when assigned protocols, but management expects you to know everything about the protocol. My supervisor whose role is suppose to be support and guidance, was very mean and unfriendly towards me and when I asked for guidance I was often met with a condescending attitude. What hurt me the most was that I proactively tried to address this issue with upper management on multiple occasions and this led to my termination with no explanation.

2.0
Dec 10, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

The fact of having MSKCC in your resume and the amount of seminars/courses you have access to.

Cons

Dealing with HR is something that requires a lot of patience. Small troubles you may have or requests to change even personal information may take a long and tedious process where they can even answer to you something not even related to your matter. Same happens with the housing office. Housing for internationals should be provided considering that people can not have a look of the apartment beforehand. Housing has no information at all other than the location of the apartment for many of the apartments they have. Housing should provide more information so people knows what are they choosing and have no surprises. Security office to renew a lost or damaged badge is absurd. The personal think to be too important to be polite and you feel like asking them not to kill you, when it's just their job.

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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Response
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Thank you for your review. We'd like to learn more about your experiences with HR and Housing so we can look into the issues you mention. Please email HRRC@mskcc.org with the subject line Glassdoor Review. Thank you.
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