University of Rochester Reviews

Pros

Learn about communicating with various backgrounds

Cons

Work can sometimes be unstructured

Pros

Great Colleagues, Awesome Students, and Active Campus.

Cons

Limited opportunities for advancement. OK pay and benefits.

Pros

long-term stability and GREAT people. new york state's requirement to publish salary bands will probably be a pro come September 2023...

Cons

There's one reason I want to leave UR, and it is HR. "equity" wins over filling positions. leads to understaffed in addition to overworked and underpaid. it's no wonder we have issues with retention and hiring. HR reps are exceedingly unhelpful and non-responsive. They refuse to give points of escalation for real, current, concrete and practical hiring issues. Basic processes are not documented. supporting salary information from glassdoor was dismissed as "unreliable self reported information" during an attempted - and partly successful - wage negotiation. Staff questions on benefits and policies can take months to get answers. Compensation is 30+% behind market for technical roles. Managers must do all their own recruiting and have no power over any of the hiring process, while having to do all the hard work of finding, screening and interviewing candidates, then stringing them along for weeks while some "compensation team" within the HR department decides how little you get to pay them.

Pros

excellent benefits work/life balance. flexible work schedule

Cons

pay not competitive with other local facilities

Pros

Good research experience for student

Cons

Pay is low than expected

Pros

Good people to work with

Cons

No opportunity for growth here

Pros

Flexible hours, great work environment, awesome coworkers, good communication.

Cons

Data entry is not the most exciting job.

Pros

I had the pleasure of working in a really great team and division. I had a really talented and respectful supervisor who I worked really well with. I loved my team and the dynamic of the larger Dean of Student's office. I felt really valued where I worked and the students I worked with were largely awesome to work with. The campus itself is very impressive and has a lot of camaraderie. The senior leadership I met were always very inviting and kind. I'm sad to leave - my life took some unexpected turns and I didn't anticipate that I would be moving on so soon. I speak about this in the cons section, but there's a lot of change happening in the student life side. I think it's all to the good, they are finally recognizing student life as a core need of the University, putting more emphasis on student support and services. It's surprising to me that it has taken so long for them to get there, but they are definitely getting there. As much as change can be daunting, it's a really exciting time to start working there.

Cons

Low salaries for the area - I know they are currently doing a salary review across campus and anticipating bumping salary ranges to be on par with local market demand, but at the moment it's one of the lower paying higher education jobs in the area. There's lots of change happening at the moment - the division of student life/dean of students office is getting a massive revamp, but I think it's all positive change. But, it's a tumultuous time to begin working there because no one really knows what the student life division will look like in the next 6 months. The academic affairs/hospital side may not be as impacted, but I know there is shuffling happening everywhere. Be aware that there's basically no formal HR onboarding - by far the two worst offices on campus are parking and HR. I know HR is working on revamping their onboarding processes but right now the campus staff onboarding is looped in with the hospital onboarding, and it feels very disorganized. It's not the best first impression. Every con I listed is something that I know the campus is aware is a problem, I do believe some of this they are attempting to address in the near future.

Pros

It is easy to start and do

Cons

nothing comes to my mind

Pros

Smart people and good location

Cons

Didn’t work long enough no cons