Yale University Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Yale University full-time

Pros – AMAZING! Very collaborative, supportive community with many great resources.

Cons – New Haven is an unsafe city to live in.

Advice to Senior Management – Create better transportation options for students

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

Current Employee – been working at Yale University full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Amazing benefits package and competitive salaries.
Tons of paid time off per year, this includes more than four weeks of vacation/personal time, as well as holidays, recesses, and sick time.

Cons – Limited opportunities for promotions or job growth.
People tend to remain here for a long time, limiting opportunities to move up the ladder.

Advice to Senior Management – Provide more opportunities for internal job growth.

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

Former Employee – worked at Yale University full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Large, prestigious institution provides a lot of security and support; great benefits and pay compared to other kinds of nonprofits; helping to educate tomorrow's leaders; lots of smart people around

Cons – High turnover rate (at least in Development), passive-aggressiveness, HR not particularly helpful in conflict situations, not much investment in career development

Advice to Senior Management – Try to be as transparent as possible with your employees, make them feel like they are part of something, not just at the whim of their superiors. Don't do things a certain way just because that's the way they have always been done.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Yale University full-time

Pros – New Haven is a much better city than many people think. The work environment is equally supportive and challenging enough to keep it interesting

Cons – The university is a very insular environment

Advice to Senior Management – Incentivize staff to participate in meaningful community engagement.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Yale University full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Benefits are good, time is flexible, employer perks are good. Co-workers are generally educated, helpful and friendly.

Cons – Conflicts with union sometimes overshadow issues. Working with other departments is sometimes difficult. Budgets have been cut for departments. Med school relies on grant funding for many processes.

Advice to Senior Management – Get a better handle on what employee problems are in the day-to-day activities. Cut back on the approval process that requires so many people to make decisions that it slows everything down to a crawl. Open up to new ideas and create a better method for growth of employees careers.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Yale University

Pros – Tons of resources, great intellectual community, very supportive of research, committed to enabling young scholars to reach their full potential.

Cons – Really, it's a great place to be involved.

Former Employee – worked at Yale University part-time for more than a year

Pros – Bright, engaged students. A pleasure to teach tutorials.

Cons – Inability to give some students the grades they deserve (i.e. C's, D's and F's) because of concerns related to parental involvement.

Advice to Senior Management – Let the students fail if they deserve to. It will serve them better in the long run to know that there are real consequences to their actions (or inactions).

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

Current Employee – been working at Yale University full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Smaller lab sizes compare to other schools.
Good medical insurance.

Cons – Very limited vacation time and can be stressful.

Advice to Senior Management – Many PIs are not good at managing their labs, but it really depends.

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

Current Employee – been working at Yale University full-time for less than a year

Pros – Top University in the world.

Cons – It is not very safe.

Advice to Senior Management – Try to make the city safer.

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

Current Employee – been working at Yale University full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Great environment -- smart people, stimulating, lots of free lectures and talks by anyone you can imagine. Excellent benefits. though some are being phased out or lessened for new employees

Cons – It's very decentralized and can be frustrating. If you are looking for everything to make sense and be orderly, that will depend on how cohesive and well run your own work unit is. Lots of variation in the quality of the management. Very good senior leadership but not focused on understanding and motivating staff (as opposed to faculty). Mobility is difficult once you rise in the ranks.

Advice to Senior Management – Find a champion for staff at the officer level. John Pepper did this well.

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