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Northwestern University reviews

4.0

75% would recommend to a friend

(4,087 total reviews)
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Michael Schill

56% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

Northwestern University has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 4,087 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Northwestern University employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
Nov 6, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Northwestern’s Cancer Center seems to really value staff professional development. They’re big into meetings and trainings.

Cons

Staff retention is very poor. People leave after 3 months, 6 months, or many under a year. Very few people have been here more than a couple years. The management, while well structured compared to other universities, is very poorly executed, and no one ever seems to know what they’re doing. There are huge gaps when you start because people just don’t do their work, and at a large organization, you can never as one person work enough to fix things that many people have neglected for years. You’re a number not a person here, and everyone just does enough to get by, not actually thrive or succeed.

2.0
Sep 11, 2018

Poor financial budget management

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Lots of resources, vacation, tuition reimbursement after 1 year, beautiful environment, friendly staff.

Cons

No room to grow, fear of job elimination due to 100 million budget cut, inflexible management structure, low status if you are non-faculty, slow to response and action for anything, lots of internal politics and in-fighting especially in the IT Administrative Systems unit, poor IT management leadership, not a true diversified environment.

2.0
Sep 28, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

The flexibility of work from home and working on either the Chicago or Evanston campus. The health, dental, and vision package. The 403b is matched up to 15% Discounts at a lot of Evanston and North Shore store locations Discounts at Apple Generally stable working environment Tuition reduction after 12 months of service

Cons

Administration believes that an employee is happy when they move on There is no path towards advancement in terms of bonuses or position promotions High turnover Low pay compared to industry average

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