Western University of Health Sciences Employee Reviews about "good benefits"

Pros

Good benefits, nice place to work

Cons

Location, lack of food places around

Pros

Really good benefits and incentives. Good work experience that can be taken elsewhere to move forward. Unfortunately, there is not much opportunity for advancement.

Cons

HR was terrible. They don't care about employees and are only concerned with protecting administration. Research staff are overall very undervalued and need to be compensated better.

Pros

good benefits, very nice place to work, staff very friendly.

Cons

very intense, very busy, time flies, love to work here.

Advice to Management

good management

Pros

Good benefits and starting pay, general comradery between faculty and staff, opportunity for learning new skill sets in collaborative efforts.

Cons

Lack of accountability in faculty and staff, poor job descriptions and structure, difficulty in job advancement, favoritism and politics (but what job doesn't have at least a bit of these element).

Advice to Management

Any business runs more smoothly with more effective leadership. Lack of accountabilty trickles from the very top to the bottom, and makes the University as a whole less efficient. The students pay good money for us to do a better job.

Pros

WUHS has a good benefits program and like most schools, good PTO. In fact, they let you accumulate it pretty quickly. President Pumerantz - now mostly in name only unfortunately - genuinely cares about the employees and students. There are some very nice people working there.

Cons

There are also some very incompetent, and downright nasty people working there too. I would probably still be there, but out of the entire 400-person faculty, I had three who for whatever reasons didn't like or believe in me as an employee. Problem was, those three were in the positions of power in the hierarchy, and Dr. Pumerantz was in no condition to take command anymore.

Advice to Management

In talking to other employees, most of us sense a slow decline is going on. Too many jerks being hired with too much power. The Provost and President need to take charge again, get HR to vett the new hires better to make sure they fit with the WUHS culture, because the upper management is rapidly forgetting about the humanistic mission of the school.