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4.0

75% would recommend to a friend

(4,087 total reviews)
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Michael Schill

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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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4K reviews
3.0
Jan 4, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good benifits, liberal sick day policy. Laid back university environment, no expectations of success or competency.

Cons

Quality of peers work was poor, no one to learn from professionally and the more talented team members tended to leave. The technical level of the staff did not match what I expected from a university of this renound.

2.0
Feb 24, 2009

Stuck in a rut

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great benefits package, and generous vacation time.

Cons

Low pay, poor communication between management and staff, overgrown babied professors to deal with.

2.0
Jun 11, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits including health insurance, tuition assistance and 403b retirement matching is great.

Cons

Human Resources is very corrupt and unhelpful. When faced with a problem with your manager, HR often takes the side of the management and offers little assistance or advice, even to a seasoned employee with an exemplary work record. They cover up and turn a blind eye to up openly problematic management and personnel issues in departments and suggest subordinates look elsewhere when faced with challenges. They offer no helpful or beneficial support, even when a manager has repeatedly been warned and reported for inappropriate behavior. More specifically, a manager was praying aloud in the office and discussing religion (in addition to many other management infractions...poor work competency, mental health issues, poor management skills, etc) and this information was reported to HR on several occasions and they turned a blind eye to it. Several people reported the incidences and nothing was done to assist the subordinates who were subjected to the behavior. Praying and discussing religion should be a RED FLAG to any Human Resources department, but NU HR did absolutely nothing, even when senior management (who this manager reported to) went directly to HR to report the behavior. Unacceptable and very disappointing to know that your rights are not protected by Human Resources.

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