Barely international - Lecturer XJTLU Employee Review

1.0
Dec 26, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Suzhou is a clean and safe city with ok facilities. Modern buildings, canteens and halls for working. Compensation is ok. Most expats here have families.

Cons

Turnover of staff makes it bad. You wont hear English spoken much. You wont see many expats, as hardly any left/more going. If you are professional, you wont like how even basic convos are managed. You get told off, no joke, when you disagree. You will see lots of job adverts for teams broken beyond repair. I wouldnt recommend; its not welcoming to overseas staff and behavior is outbursts and those in control dont care, neither does anyone do anything to stop it. Think twice as its really not ok what is here.

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Cons

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Pros

Aesthetically pleasant campus and a vibrant environment at the SIP campus. The library has very good resources.

Cons

My experience as a foreign professor at XJTLU has been extraordinarily negative. The management of my division has fostered a culture of fear and punishment, undermining operational capabilities, stifling research output, and eroding morale to the point that eight full-time professors—all foreigners—are leaving this summer alone. International faculty have been systematically excluded from leadership roles, teaching assignments are constantly reshuffled to an impossible degree, and with the division unable to hire replacements, remaining staff have been told to expect exponentially heavier workloads in the coming semesters. If you are an international scholar considering XJTLU: don’t. I wish I had been warned before making the decision to relocate here.

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