Duke Health reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(2,323 total reviews)
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45% positive business outlook

Duke Health has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 2,323 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Duke Health employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Healthcare industry (3.5 stars).

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2.0
Apr 19, 2010

politics at Duke are thick

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Pros

there are great health benefits

Cons

this has been a very political environment. duke just wants to make money and they don't particularly care how they do it. i leave most meetings thinking that management is incompetent. no one seems to have the answer to any questions.

4.0
Jan 21, 2010
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Pros

As a nurse, you get to take care of all kinds of patients. A lot of opportunities for mobility, however most of it is lateral and is not considered a promotion

Cons

Pay isn't the best around. Lots of inexperienced nurses and a fairly high-turnover. Management is always changing something, however they do support the nurses.

2.0
Sep 24, 2009
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Pros

Great benefits for FT salaried employees if you don't get paid on grants. Great opportunities to brown-nose because Duke is so politically-oriented.

Cons

Soft money employees are treated like second-class citizens (or more like contract workers). 30 days notice is all you may get . No internal support exists for you to move laterally or to help you find a job. These changes have come about over the past 6 years por so. So build your network and brown-nose all you can. Very little support for cross-training. Each department must pay for this service and that cost is not liked by the business managers. All hirings are currently frozen at Big Duke. 100 people are about to get their severance offerings. The company picnic was scrapped last year for the first time ever. Don't expect to get by on your merit. You need to be well-liked. I was a FT employee, working my way up the tech ladder for 18 years, finding basically no opportunity to move sideways or up. I got laid off twice within a 2-year period because of mismanagement of funds and lack of the ability for finaqnce to release research money because they were busy shoring up finds for their own staff. That is probably illegal. That doesn't matter at Duke. Fair warning.

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