St. Edward's reviews

3.8

62% would recommend to a friend

(250 total reviews)

George E. Martin

71% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

St. Edward's has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 250 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The St. Edward's 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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250 reviews
1.0
Apr 3, 2013

It was great

Recommend
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Pros

Great people, great mission, and great students.

Cons

Management is flat out incompetent (at least in IT). If you're in IT don't expect to find a job or move within the company unless you're friends with the curent UT crowd and come from UT yourself. In the last year no one in IT has been hired without being a previous UT coworker with one of the current directors and those who are hired are often flat out incompetent without a single day worth of experience in the the position to which they were hired (this includes managers, supervisors, etc). Programmers who say in their cover letter they don't program, supervisors who have never worked in the area they supervise or supervised anyone themselves, the list goes on. Qualifications don't matter, only your friendship with UT crowd is required to get hired. The VP, while having a great vision, seems to be quickly losing a political battle to the growing UT crowd most of whom are very keen on his job and not so much on the people they're here to help. It isn't uncommon to hear IT folks directly say they're not here for the students and they're not here for the faculty/staff (leaving their own careers as their only motivation).

5.0
Feb 6, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Gaining support within your academic community, making lasting connections with both students and faculty of the University, trying out various opportunities without having to commit in a long-term way

Cons

I really don't have any cons. Faculty is always willing to work with students' unique schedules. I do wish there had been more hours available to pick up, but I understand why there weren't.

4.0
Sep 25, 2012

Great coworkers, beautiful campus. Hope to stay here a while.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The folks here (students, staff, faculty, UPD) are for the most part wonderful people and communicating between departments is easy. Faculty care about the students and are super accessible and generally friendly. There is a real sense of community here. The university has 8 operating principles which employees actually put into practice every day. They are more than just policies on paper for the sake of having them, everyone here works with those principles in mind and they are prevalent throughout the culture of the university. Great benefits and retirement plan. Plentiful vacation time PLUS paid university holidays ends up working out to about 4 weeks of paid time off per year. Flexible vacation time usage, at least in my department. There are plenty of incentives to stay here even if you aren't in love with your position. I love coming to work every day at a beautiful campus with easy access to coffee and food. Squirrel population is thriving and the Holy Cross brothers on campus have a program to feed the feral cat population, which is nice.

Cons

There is a lack of communication about new developments from the higher ups and VPs. They will often make changes and/or create new programs (all good things!) without including the folks who will actually implement these things and make them function at the practical level. The result is that students are often the ones to suffer while the "kinks" are worked out, when serving the student/customer should be the top priority. Better advanced planning is needed. The university was very vocal about the fact that they were not freezing salaries about a year ago as many other schools had to do. That all seemed great. Fast forward a few months from that announcement and there is a now a person who is essentially an efficiency "expert" making the rounds. People have been let go left and right over the past 8-10 months and cuts are still being made. Not huge layoffs when you look at other businesses making cuts, but many more than in previous years. It makes for tension and uncertainty in the air which was never apparent before. Parking. This year the cost of a permit to park on campus is $204 and it comes out of your paycheck. Paying that much doesn't mean you will find a place anywhere near where you're going on campus. That's a very minor complaint, though.

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