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Yale University/ Yale Health Center Is Not The Same - Union Member Yale University Employee Review

1.0
Mar 9, 2023
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Pros

The benefits are competitive Yale University has a vast array of career opportunities

Cons

The Yale health center at Yale University use to be the best place to work when it was located on Hillhouse Ave. I use to love going to work! Since the Yale health center moved to Lock Street, It is no longer a happy, friendly, family, comfortable, safe atmosphere. The morale is at an all time low. It is not even about the patients anymore, although that is what they would love for you to believe. Yale Health in my opinion is now a corporate facility that is all about the numbers, the higher ups on the top floor, the bogus repetitive managers meetings and their nugatory research groups, the frivolous press Ganey reports, and the over populated nurses and managers that get paid a hefty amount of money for basically fudgeling at work while passing the majority of their work along to the over worked and under paid union employees, which they are trying to phase them out in an attempt to get rid of the union which is a joke anyway. There are some atrocious managers that do not even have a clue on how to manage a department and sadly treat a certain type of employees horrible, but the employees cannot say anything because if they do they will find a way to get rid of you. I want to make this clear. All of Yale University is not bad. Yale University has a vast array of career opportunities. This review is only pertaining to Yale Health Center.

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5.0
Jul 17, 2026
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Pros

I had great interactions within the department. Students are enthusiastic and it was my pleasure to teach.

Cons

Only that it's hard to get a position there.

5.0
Jun 26, 2026
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Pros

The BBS Umbrella program is fantastic - allows people to switch between tracks (not the easiest, but the option for this flexibility is nice) and it houses many fantastic departments with strong support for their students and faculty. The Department of Cell Biology was amazing. Faculty mentors (not always, but way more often) felt like colleagues that listen to you and are "in the weeds" with you. Major shout out to the BCMM Holy Trinity (probably moved at this point to the new building) that fostered such a fun work environment and trustworthy mentorship. Note the "Con" below, but it is also important to mention that many of the faculty that I worked with were supportive of my (and others') pursuit of other career paths. Also, the ratings below reflect my opinions after the Union was put into place.

Cons

Both Yale and the academic departments could do a better job preparing their students for alternative career paths. The culture is still definitely leaning towards the academic route despite the increasingly fewer number of faculty positions available each year. There will seldomly be pushback to the pursuit of other career paths, but this pursuit has to be 100% innately driven for each candidate. In contrast, the culture externally influences people to naturally go the academic route.

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