Privacy Office - Employee Beware - Privacy Analyst UCSF Health Employee Review

2.0
Oct 1, 2018
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Pros

Working at UCSF Health is a stable job: you clock in, take a lunch break, and clock out. It looks great on a resume, and you can get a better title externally after. The skills obtained are translatable across other industries.

Cons

Workers who have stayed at UCSF for over 2 years are life'ers, and hate to do anything new or different. They are also very risk averse, and will throw other people under the bus to save their reputation and chance at a pension. This leads to workers being very territorial and passive aggressive. Management has no backbone because they are also looking out for themselves and thoroughly under qualified for their positions. Don't expect any professional courtesy or support from others. Management personally are on their way to retirement and hate each other; the lack of respect and professionalism trickle down, so the typical tenure of a Privacy staff member is only 3 months due to the toxic and hostile work environment. The pay is minimal, and the pay discrepancy between staff members is vast.

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Pros

Opportunities to learn new skills. My team is excellent.

Cons

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1.0
Apr 6, 2026
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Pros

The people that work at UCSF are some of the most intelligent analysts I've ever worked with in 15 years of Health IT. Most are ex-Epic employees with strong backgrounds in project managament and IT,

Cons

UCSF recently decided to reclassify all remote employees as "Felxible" without their input or permission. As a result, employees must now travel to the office WITHOUT expenses paid. This means that flights, hotels, etc. are NOT reimbursed and are paid by the employee. UCSF has not answered to what problem they are trying to solve with this, and refuses to answer how this action aligns with goals such as sustainability (carbon emissions), equity (women and disabled are more impacted by eliminating remote work), working accommodating (UCSF does not have the physical space for all of the Clinical Systems department to be on site. There is no locked storage or accessible workspaces.), safety (there is no shuttle for UCSF to all locations that have been mentioned for work). UCSF limits employee growth, by eliminating actual promotions with "role based work". In other words, you have to do more work without compensation for it. They have also completely reneged on remote management, meaning that most employees are now at a dead end.

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