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4.3

86% would recommend to a friend

(1,496 total reviews)
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79% positive business outlook

Rice University has an employee rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 1,496 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Rice 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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1.0
Dec 13, 2022

Most toxic job

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Pros

Great tech, good benefits, beautiful campus

Cons

Don't expect HR to help or support you in any way. They could barely answer questions-, all they would do is copy and paste the same text you were asking about without better explaining it. No opportunity for advancement or growth No trainings on growing into better roles Upper level positions refused to retire, creating stagnation No clean advancement career track An idea that once you got into a role, that's where you were until you retired. You will only be allowed to advance in ways that help them, not you or your career. Very old school, refusal to understand that social media changed regularly and marketing should reflect that. (Ie having me focus on Facebook, when tiktok or instagram would have been the better option. - this leads back into the retirement thing) Regularly more and more responsibilities were given to me, without any increase in pay. IT would speak in jargon at you instead of helping you. There was no support in any way, shape or form from the university. If you wanted answers you needed to email 10 people in your department and hope someone had the answer. Just a very toxic workplace, no work/life balance. If I didn't respond to an email quick enough, I would get a text. The website builder and class scheduling system are absolute nightmares. I was once told by a professor/colleague that "I should wear more make up more often, because see, some eyeliner really makes your eyes pop! You can try harder to look beautiful." She also spoke down to be so throughly that she was a contributing factor to leaving. I reported her to my supervisors but nothing was done. Another professor regularly treated me as his personal assistant, not as a departmental one. The last thing that caused me to leave was finding out I was in charge of a huge event, and when I asked for help from the other departments involved (as I was told I could do) to help book travel (for about 30 people), they told me it wasn't in their purview to help me. The professor organizing it also refused to help me, saying it was my job to do it all. I had 3 other departmental events in the same month to plan, all I wanted was help booking travel and was told no by everyone on the "team". It was 4 departments involved, so in the original discussions work was split 4 ways. Suddenly it was all passed to me. I expressed that I felt this was unfair. And was told basically "life isn't fair". I wouldn't recommend this place to anyone as a job.

1.0
Mar 9, 2021
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Pros

The flexibility and location are great, the campus is beautiful. Many of the people you work with will be beyond brilliant and interesting. As a well funded university, there are lots of resources, infrastructure and more than you have access to as an employee.

Cons

A colleague groped me and I reported it immediately according to procedure. Nothing really happened, no mediation, the official "no contact order" document was only provided months after the initial report took place, and many more months after that, a generic half-training was finally held for the colleague's School (I'm not sure how effective "don't grope your coworkers" is when tacked on to the end of a Dean's Office meeting). The concerning thing is the individual still manages several social media accounts for Rice Engineering--direct, unsupervised access to Rice students and future Rice students? No professional oversight for each account's DMs? Sounds like a predator's dream. The colleague would not otherwise come into contact with these students were they not in their position, and by the time I reported them, they had already been overly aggressive to other female colleagues and made them feel uncomfortable in a variety of other situations. What is it actually going to take for Rice to care? I'm not sure, but a history of unprofessional behavior and nonconsensual sexual touching weren't it. Also, parking is terrible. Depending on which campus building you'll be working in on-site, parking can come out to $1000+ a year so consider that in your offer.

1.0
Mar 24, 2017

Administror

Anonymous employee
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Pros

nice campus, lots of tree.

Cons

Certain department has no clear metrix to help new hires to thrive, managment are not competent in important areas (e.g.organizational, interpersonal & technical skills). New hires can suffer from office politics and poor leadership.

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