Stanford University reviews

Expensive place to live. Excessive number of deans and deanlets makes research more expensive than it should be. Few or no endowed professorships. Excessive bureaucracy and really incompetent admins.

-There is no parking and if you find any it is super expensive. -Inflexible work environment where innovation and creativity are stifled. -Employee personal development is non-existent. -There is little support for a work-life balance. Some managers are responsive to having employees who are parents and others just treat them poorly. -Middle and upper management are very impersonal and provide little feedback on work performance. -Much of middle management is shuffled around because of inefficiency but there is no motivation to fire them because they have been there too long. -Talented staff prefer to work elsewhere and there is a significant loss of good staff every year. -Much of middle and upper management is burned-out. -Middle and upper management are oblivious to making the best use of some of its staff. People are routinely hired who can do so much more but managers hoard the resource and don't let them collaborate with other departments. -Departments rarely work well together. There is a lot of territoriality and reluctance to share any resources. -The highest officers in the department are very removed and don't realize how inefficiently a lot of things are run. -Transferring (or attempting to transfer) between departments even after many years of service is looked down on and people get overly jealous and defensive about this. Retaliation in this area is common. -Managers get little training on how to promote the best from their employees. -The politics feel like a corporate boardroom. -Most of the non-management staff are always looking for another job. -There is a lot of red tape to get anything done.