Policies may be suspended if you're in a remote silo in this decentralized bureaucracy. - Programmer/Analyst II UCSF Health Employee Review

3.0
Aug 13, 2014
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Pros

Great benefits, smart co-workers, projects and programs that have high goals. Stellar scientific leaders. Wonderful sense of collaboration when you're working with smart doctors who can also teach.

Cons

Many incompetent managers who save their venom for analysts and administrative staff. UCSF is very decentralized, with almost 30 campuses and multiple centers of power. There is almost no chance of advancing so get hired at the highest rank you can. UCSF operates on the Hollywood principle: take care of your superstars, let them contract shamelessly with friends and family at will, and ignore their excesses. Then don't pay the non-managers for the work they perform for lame and incompetent family and friends.

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5.0
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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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