St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Employee Reviews about "jude"

Pros

There is a overall spirit of comradery and joy in supporting children and families. There is an openness to new ideas. The benefits are phenomenal!

Cons

There are absolutely no cons to working/serving at St. Jude.

Pros

Benefits are great, most team mates believe in our mission and have a passion for pediatric oncology. Unit managers are mostly great. Somewhat flexible scheduling in some departments. Diversity is a focus.

Cons

Lots of changes have happened in the last 3 years to move away from being a unique and wonderful place to work and more toward a generic, typical hospital setting. St. Jude used to have a very nice night shift differential, but that was significantly decreased not long ago. I recently learned a nurse that started less than a year ago makes 12.5% more than me per hour (without her differential) and I’ve worked at the institution for years and have advanced the clinical advancement program offered (multiple certifications, trained countless employees, etc). Pediatric oncology isn’t always an easy field to work in and it’s quite a slap in the face to learn how much more new employees are being laid compared to long haulers. Administration (not direct managers, they’re wonderful) seems to put a lot of faith in the “there’s no place like St. Jude” reputation, which is reflected in the attitude of long term employees being disposable/replaceable with new hires.

Pros

Research done is really good. In many fields such as Hematology, Immunology, Infectious Diseases, Structural Biology, there are many top-tier labs. Giving two stars instead of one because of the amazing research done in fundamental biology!

Cons

I really don't know who are these St. Jude employees leaving such good reviews in Glassdoor! It's now a common knowledge that a lot of people are quitting. St. Jude doesn't appreciate their employees! Management allows people, especially white male, to "walk all over" minorities! It has no system in place where employees can complain completely anonymously, if they face sexism and racism. Take a look at the employee directory: you'll see that all higher-up positions are crowded by white, middle-aged men! Petty salary. No scope for promotions, continuing-education, professional development! Rather managers discourage these aspects of career development.

Pros

St. Jude CRH takes on incredible goals. Getting to work with the best and brightest and aiming for the stars brings out the best in me. Even the dreariest day is made brighter with the awareness that all employees can share in our contributions to the mission.

Cons

St. Jude is in the process of adapting to incredible growth over the past several years with more growth on the horizon. Some internal systems still seem homespun. But change initiatives are in process and most are being carried out methodically. With such a mission and a team of people committed to moving the needle on catastrophic childhood diseases all around the world, sometimes work/life balance gets off kilter.

Pros

St. Jude is doing an awesome job in providing cancer treatment and research for the future. Great nurse to patients ratio. Supportive coworkers. Great benefits among other hospitals.

Cons

Coming from another big institution, it is pretty clear that the higher up is trying to change what makes St. Jude great and unique in term of nursing and patient care into a generic hospital. Higher up management does not listen to nurse's voice. As proven by never following through with their promises when they come to ask for our opinion. Nursing in the middle of pandemic is hard as it is, and not a lot of support from the higher up to retain current loyal employees. Not a lot of nursing autonomy at St. Jude compare to others.

Pros

I love the community, the campus, the environment. There are many tools to help you succeed and prosper. Executives are not micromanagers and team leads are allowed to be very flexible with their teams. We have employees from all around the world and the diversity is amazing! They allow all departments and team managers to create their own schedules for their teams with the ability to work remote or hybrid remote/campus. Benefits are AMAZING! We have an onsite clinic, pharmacy, car wash, gym, 2 starbucks, a bank,and literally anything else you can ever need. Words can't describe the amazing things that happen at St. Jude. It truly is a blessing to be a part of this community!

Cons

However, there seems to be a drastic contrast of privilege between hourly employees and those working salary. Those who are salary can come and go as they wish and their PTO balances are astronomical because they arent micromanaged like hourly employees despite hourly employees working twice as hard and having to be here 8 full hours everyday! Department chairs are practically non-existent in operations & it all falls on administration and direct managers which is an absolute nightmare because one manager can be super cool and the other can be an evil person! for example, our department does not have a dress code. If my manager sees me without dress slacks on EVERYDAY, I am publicly scolded in front of my coworkers. Work schedules are up to the team managers and every single manager in our department is very flexible and very nice to their employees. For me, if I am not here at 8AM on the dot, I get publicly scolded in front of my coworkers. I get asked almost on a weekly basis why I "don't work overtime like my coworkers"... Over 75% of our department is remote and my team manager insists on our entire team being onsite every day when 90%+ of our work load is virtual and more than half of our department is empty. Need to make up an hour of work this weekend because of a doctors appointment you had on Tuesday? cool, no problem! Can you do it remotely on a project that has been sitting on hold for months? NO, you are forced to sit in traffic for an hour and come onsite to make up that one hour. I understand that this is the general difference between hourly and exempt employees, but the level at which the privileges contrast, its depressing. There is no oversight on power tripping managers and it becomes miserable when you see how everyone else in your department is so happy and comfortable while your manager is a nightmare. Directors, managers, and department chairs speak amongst themselves and if you try to apply to another department, your manager will find out through the "great vine" and it makes things very awkward and it jeopardizes your application to the other department. You feel trapped when you have a bad/evil manager. Lastly, if you are applying to any job at St. Jude that lists "And anything else that maybe asked of you" or something along those terms in the job description, RUN!!!! This means you will be forced into doing executive level tasks that are waaaaay above your pay grade and there is nothing you can do about it.