Baylor College of Medicine Reviews in Houston, TX Area

Current Employee – been working at Baylor College of Medicine full-time for more than a year

Pros – Part of the largest medical center in the world with world-renowned leaders in every field of Medicine. Incredible experience that has shaped the future of my career in one short year.

Cons – If you are looking for an easier, more laid-back atmosphere, this is not the work environment for you. The volume is so great that the simplest jobs become more challenging than they may ordinarily be. The work is rewarding if you are willing to do the job.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Baylor College of Medicine full-time for more than a year

Pros – Free parking, good location, decent benefits, don't interact with patients

Cons – Horrible communication, too many closed door conversations, too many personal attacks particular individuals.

Advice to Senior Management – Just because you may compensate us like field workers in a third world country, you do not have the right to treat us as such.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Baylor College of Medicine full-time for more than a year

Pros – Innovative teams working towards a 'for the greater good' goal. Most managers/supervisors trust their employees to know what they are doing, very minimal micromanagement.Great camaraderie with coworkers

Cons – When the funding isn't there, layoffs happen. Management were the last to go in layoffs.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Baylor College of Medicine full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Flexibility
work life balance is good
Parking is horrible
the pee-ons are never listened to
too many Indians and not enough cheifs!
About 12 meetings a week and 10 of them are pointless!

Cons – Salary is horrible!
Micromanaging on an hourly basis

Advice to Senior Management – For God sake stop belittling employees, we are all human! Micromanaging is at a high of 110% let people do their work!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Baylor College of Medicine full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Highly competitive and productive research environment and excellent place to work for basic science and excellent for high quality publication and chances of getting a NIH grant.

Cons – No permanent position for senior postdoc

Advice to Senior Management – Create some position for senior postdoc to permanent scientist

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Baylor College of Medicine full-time for more than a year

Pros – Human Genome Sequencing Center is the third largest Genome Sequencing facility. There are many nice problems to solve in Bioinformatics.

Cons – I used to work at Human Genome Sequencing Center as a software engineer at BCM. In my work history of 6 years and 3 companies, I have not seen a more mis-managed organization than this.

Some of the highlights of bad management and brutal wastage of resources
1) Qualified and well-educated engineers, lab-technicians are poorly treated. It does not matter if what an employee says is right or not, he/she must do what the management says.
2) They are trying to solve very large data intensive Computer Science problems and the people who make almost all the decisions such as which hardware to get, how should different components talk to each other have very limited CS knowledge.
3) There were several instances where due to management planning failures, they had less computing resources than required for proper operation. As a result, genome data costing thousands of dollars to generate was lost.
4) They have no concept of Software Engineering design. This is a huge mistake as bad software tools can easily increase the computation time substantially, especially in large data systems like DNA sequencing platforms. For example, a badly developed tool to call SNP on Illumina data was taking days instead of hours.
5) Lack or coordination between different groups generally makes it a lot hard to get anything done. Each group behaved like an autonomous unit instead of working coherently with other

A strong evidence of these drawbacks is that there is continuous exodus of employees from there.

Advice to Senior Management – 1) Listen to employees.
2) Allow the people skilled in their respective domains to make the decisions.
3) Make management trimmer - less meetings, and more work.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Baylor College of Medicine full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Stipend allows you to live well.
There are opportunities of collaboration.
Work/life balance really depends on who you choose as your mentor, which is both good and bad.

Cons – Healthcare is not good enough.
Parking (even with benefits) is still very expensive.
There are not a lot of extracurricular activities.

Advice to Senior Management – If parking will continue to be expensive, at least give us easy access to the parking lots 24/7
Increase the insurance benefits.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Baylor College of Medicine full-time for less than a year

Pros – Really liked the nature of the research as it fit closest to my interest (I am very specific in terms of my research interest)

Cons – Salary is low as compared to the position and the knowledge it requires.

Advice to Senior Management – Salary should be increased in commensurate with the qualifications.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Baylor College of Medicine full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – good health insurance, stable job environment, low pressure, flexible working hour.

Cons – Salary is low. Not much room for career development.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Baylor College of Medicine as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Academic Medical Center, Brand Recognition, Recently created the Baylor College of Medicine Medical Center and are condensing offices to the new McNair building for better operational efficiency.

Cons – BCM takes advantage of student interns as free labor. Several students from nearby universities were given carrots which were subsequently redacted once the administrator got what they needed from the student. There were promises of employment or paid internships after so long.

Advice to Senior Management – This isn't my issue.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company