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Stanford University

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Stanford University reviews

4.3

82% would recommend to a friend

(5,728 total reviews)
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Jonathan Levin

77% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Stanford University has an employee rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 5,728 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Stanford University employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.8 stars).

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6K reviews
1.0
Jan 13, 2021

Terrible

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Challenging, new skills, work from home

Cons

Toxic work environment, low pay, no work/life balance

2.0
Sep 25, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

beautiful campus, renowned faculty, great thinkers and speakers, students are awesome for the most part, many wonderful colleagues

Cons

Stanford is decentralized so every department is different, at the business school it's a place for "lifers" and "yes men," change/risk averse, being 35 is "young" here, little diversity on staff, especially at senior levels, brace yourself for frequent microaggressions, the entire faculty senate is white men, low pay for bay area (about half to a third of the market rate for equivalent jobs at any tech company) with middling benefits unless you have kids in college (no fertility benefits, no meals, no WFH set up reimbursements during COVID, pay for parking, etc.), the only folks here long term either have spouses who earn double what they do, or have an outdated cost of living because they bought their house 10+ years ago

1.0
Aug 30, 2020

Worst place to work at

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Big name on your resume

Cons

You don’t matter to them

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