M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Reviews

Former Employee – worked at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

Pros – Tuition reimbursement
Great PTO policy
Easy to transfer arouns

Cons – Parking fees
salary could be better
expensive retirement deductions

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

Pros – The overall experience working there was great. Everyone working there is really friendly and helpfull.

Cons – Parking and bus pass is not covered like the other hospitals.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

Pros – good research environment. people are general nice here. good salary if get enrolled in as faculty. Offices other than basement are good too. good vacation.

Cons – The paperwork efficiency is really low. Salary is a little bit low for starter. No cell signal in main building first floor

Advice to Senior Management – raise the paperwork efficiency, give more benefit for the postdoc, invest more in research which will in turn help patient better.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

Pros – Good benefits and great colleagues.

Cons – Low efficiency and a little bit bureaucratic.

Advice to Senior Management – Great team.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

Pros – Great people, benefits were good, and you can take pride in knowing that your contributions are helping realize a greater good...

Cons – i would say health care is second only to government for embracing technology and its applications... its most likely the industry erring on the side of caution, but that's not going to help you sharpen your underutilized development skills when your hired to maintain an environment that a consulting firm packaged up for the hospital.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep doing what you're doing. I was impressed both by my immediate management as well as executive level during my stint there...

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

Pros – innovative drug therapies, fast-paced workload; challenging and motivating
good wook schedules, flexible scheduling available; overtime frequently offered
competitive salary with good benefits

Cons – weak upper management; failure to deal with problem employees; HR is worthless, in that all it does is to worry about not getting sued, so it takes decades to fire a bad worker.

Advice to Senior Management – Make HR understand that they are working for MDA management, not the other way around.
Hire/develop stronger leaders & managers in the Pharmacy department

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

Pros – Reputation
Direct management is far superior to any other I have worked for

Cons – Salary
Lack of opportunity for advancement
lack of support for furthering of education at a senior management level

Advice to Senior Management – There are too many committees and too many people that are "in charge" yet are completely incapable of making any real, positive change happen.

Former Employee – worked at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

Pros – prestige, famous, big, comprehensive, patient appreciation, recognition, relatively higher pay than peers in the same city, good facility, appears rich

Cons – slow, a lot of waste of money, the quality of research doesn't really fit with the fame, bureaucratic, management ignorant

Advice to Senior Management – please get rid of of 80% of your VPs and 95% of the consultants. It is ridiculous that so much money is wasted in the facility, and the repeated investment and repeated failure in support systems such as the IT system. These IT consultants, middle manager makes more money than a Ph.D. scientist and produce nothing but wasting resources.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

Pros – M.D. Anderson is in Houston's medical center area where as a scientist one can cooprate not only inside the institution but also outside the institution, such as Baylor college of Medicine, HSC at houston, UT medical branch, Rice University.

Cons – As a researcher, one need to cooperate within and outside the institue. Some time outside coopration save lots of time and efforts. Most of the cases P.I. took that initiative. The fellow set behind.

Advice to Senior Management – Direct communication most of the time may save time and it would be more productive. Research is not a closed book.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

Pros – Lots of room for advancement - if you have not ben there for >10 yrs.

Cons – Pay for parking.. which the costs go up every year and no change to the parking garage, high deductible for priscriptions.

Advice to Senior Management – Provide some financing for research staff to advance and grow.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend