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Horrible Leadership Mandating a Fake Culture - Associate George Washington University Employee Review

1.0
Jul 28, 2020
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Pros

The people I worked with for a number of years were amazing.

Cons

The new leadership under LeBlanc and Diaz is awful. Steer clear. They are pretending to create a culture of inclusion and transparency, but that is the furthest thing from the truth. They change their minds all the time and have no clue what a budget is - decisions are made on a whim and not strategic or intentional at all. They spent millions on a Disney Culture Initiative only to never follow the recommendations that were provided. Hiring practices are a joke and they just keep bringing in people from Miami at outrageously high salaries. That is the real reason they are having to do layoffs right now - they spent too much on people at the top who aren't doing anything to make the situation better.

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Pros

1) Tuition Remission is nice and adds a lot to the implicit salary. 2) Work-life balance is typically fairly good. Rarely are you pushing more than 45 hours a week. 3) Depending on your supervisor, you may get decent managering responsibilities quickly.

Cons

1) The pay at GW is significantly below market, especially for quantitative researchers. They try to make up for it with tuition remission but at some point, it isn't worth it. 2) The only way to push one's salary up is to switch jobs within GWU. The annual raise is 2.5%. Managers are able to petition HR to raise it higher but I have never heard of anyone receiving more than 5% and promotions are very rare, even among good managers. 3) Not great for quantitative researchers -- managers are typically more qualitative and thus aren't great at supervision. 4) HR and administration is super slow and often times gets in the way of an efficient office.

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