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    UC San Francisco Reviews

    Updated September 19, 2017
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    Pros

    • Very nice employer, great work/life balance (in 34 reviews)

    • Great benefits and room for growth (in 61 reviews)

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    1. "A great place to learn"

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      • Senior Management
      Former Employee - Clinical Research Coordinator in San Francisco, CA
      Former Employee - Clinical Research Coordinator in San Francisco, CA
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at UC San Francisco full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      UCSF attracts some of the most brilliant scientists, students, doctors, and researchers in the world. The atmosphere is friendly but with very high expectations. I was overworked (60+ hrs a week) but learned a ton and adored my colleagues. There is endless opportunity for growth, learning, mentorship, and building collaborative relationships across departments. UCSF definitely has a few things that I would change but overall I would recommend it as a workplace.

      Cons

      UCSF, in recent years, has had little to no raises & pay is way less than similar industry research jobs. I ended up switching to tech (user research) to increase my salary and improve my work-life balance.

      Advice to Management

      They need to standardize the workload across departments. Some coordinators manage 30 very complex clinical trials and some coordinators manage two simple studies while getting paid the same amount. Also the strict and very limited vacation time is awful.

    2. "Research assistant"

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      Current Employee - Research Assistant in San Francisco, CA
      Current Employee - Research Assistant in San Francisco, CA
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at UC San Francisco full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      Nurturing work environment and nice colleagues

      Cons

      Hard to gain upward mobility

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    3. "Good benefits, salary insufficient for San Francisco"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee

      Pros

      Great environment, great health coverage

      Cons

      No diversity, salary is too low for the cost of living in San Francisco

    4. "Jr Specialist @ UCSF"

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      Former Employee - Junior Special in San Francisco, CA
      Former Employee - Junior Special in San Francisco, CA
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I worked at UC San Francisco full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      Easy commute, great benefits, easy to network between labs to get more research opportunities and collaborations

      Cons

      Academia and thus pay is lower than one could want. Lots of 'training' to be done to be up to code for OSHA that involves just staring at videos for hours.

    5. "Great place to work at"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I have been working at UC San Francisco full-time

      Pros

      Great place and great people to work with

      Cons

      Salary is not very competitive

    6. "Senior System Administrator"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at UC San Francisco full-time

      Pros

      Very nice employer, great work/life balance

      Cons

      None I can think of, maybe lower salary than industry

    7. "Teams are very efficient in working with staff and patients."

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      Current Employee - Outpatient Clinic Coordinator in San Francisco, CA
      Current Employee - Outpatient Clinic Coordinator in San Francisco, CA
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at UC San Francisco full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      Patient care is high on the list. Team members work together to get projects done. Supervisors work with staff to reach care goals.

      Cons

      Company is restructuring and expanding, causing a little confusion at times. Things sometimes change without notifying all the affected participants. The changes are showing how different departments interact, which is sometimes unexpected.

      Advice to Management

      Provide work flow I formation to each department. There are some unknown interactions that would be best know.

    8. "Registered Nurse CN ll"

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      Current Employee - Registered Nurse
      Current Employee - Registered Nurse
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I have been working at UC San Francisco part-time (More than 10 years)

      Pros

      Great staff, wonderful patients,

      Cons

      "always short on staff," no lunch breaks

    9. "The world of UC"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous
      Former Employee - Anonymous
      Doesn't Recommend
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I worked at UC San Francisco full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      Excellent benefits.
      Great diversity
      Good people and awesome food

      Cons

      Multiple campuses across the city. Awful for parking.
      Shady management.

      Advice to Management

      Just because you have a DVM doesn't make you qualified to be in a management position.

    10. "SRA2"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I worked at UC San Francisco full-time

      Pros

      lots of room for growth

      Cons

      could be overwhelmingly stressful at times being around the top talents all the time

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