Don't bother getting into non-clinical roles if you're not well-connected
Pros
Good values, great connection with community, good place if you're clinical (especially a nurse), decent benefits. They did their best to take of their people during the COVID-19 pandemic, protecting its employees and providing benefits to everyone that kept them safe as much as possible. And there was good work/life balance as an employee, as I was never expected to take work home after my shift ended.
Cons
Working here in non-clinical roles is a big "who you know" game. I applied to several internal positions I was qualified for, only to: a) not receive any communications from the recruiter and be left 'in consideration' for over 6 months; or b) be reject from the internal application system without any communications from the recruiter as to why I was not considered or how to improve my opportunity for advancement. I was close enough to three of the roles to discover that the hired persons had less qualifications and experience than me. Managers get by on their relationships with upper management, and not their results, i.e., if you suck up to the right people your lack of qualifications won't matter. Despite always 'exceeding expectations', there was never an opportunity to get more than a 1% raise. My manager expected me to be extremely grateful one year when they gave me a 1.04% raise, over the standard 1.00% raise. Leadership is not very diverse, even though the organization is. I've worked in 4 other hospitals and never had an experience as bad as working at Memorial Hermann. I would never work at another Memorial Hermann hospital even if my pay was tripled because the suck-up culture left such a bad taste in my mouth.