UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals Employee Reviews about "good benefits"

Pros

Brilliant minds. Good benefits (healthcare and retirement). Mission Bay is gorgeous

Cons

SF is a very expensive city and difficult getting between campuses. If you have kids getting into daycare (especially at Parnassus campus) and affording it as well is extremely difficult. The salary is not much different than at other academic sites in other cities with far lower cost of living.

Advice to Management

Better support for junior faculty / staff with young families.

Pros

Good benefits, room for growth

Cons

Favoritism towards employers, discriminatory work environment, sometimes toxic environment

Pros

Good benefits, excellent networking and funding opportunities due to the infrastructure

Cons

NIH sets postdoc salaries; they are very low given cost of living in the Bay Area and there is little room for negotiation

Pros

large company, good benefits, good diversity

Cons

you can't get anything done because there's always someone higher up and someone higher than them who needs to OK the littlest things. There's no communication between departments and its a headache to be an employee who wants to make a difference and care about the job

Pros

The salary was great and the perks that come with the job are nice. Good benefits. Some departments have a better "culture" than others.

Cons

Being such a huge institution, it is very bureaucratic. There are a lot of communication failures.

Advice to Management

Give employees a track towards moving up.

Pros

Good benefits. Retirement benefits after you are vested five years in. Can work in other state departments as a UCSF contractor (e.g., state public health). Don't know much about working at UCSF proper; just at state dept. I have also appreciated that they have been very vocal in support of undocumented students during the current attacks from the White House.

Cons

Travel reimbursement process is cumbersome and bureaucratic

Pros

Interesting work and good benefits

Cons

Low pay and no overtime

Pros

Dedicated staff, good benefits, great space for training

Cons

The company has some bureaucracy issues, but most hospitals do