Rockefeller University reviews

Absolute no career advancement. No pay scale or salary grades. Salary is not commensurate with experience. Yearly raises are minimal as they don't even do employee review. Hard for promotion opportunities within the science community. You essentially start with a title, and leave with the same one. Salary is not competitive to surrounding community.

- People’s individual experiences will depend highly on their department or lab. What I will say from my experience personally is that there’s really no system in place for dealing with problematic colleagues or toxic work environments. HR is toothless in these situations. Any resolution is almost solely up to the discretion of heads of lab, i.e. tenured professors who are practically untouchable and difficult to hold accountable. - Campus is far from most public transit - Faculty are extremely homogenous - No retirement benefits until 2 years of employment - The institution paid a hefty settlement for events from decades ago (see “Controversy” section on Wikipedia page). The controversy is horrible in and of itself, and due to the settlement, the university has tightened the purse strings, including for annual pay raises. - Not an actual con, per se, but it’s more of a research institute than a “university”. Yes, they do graduate PhD students (~40 a year), but there’s very little formal education or pedagogy offered at this institution. Students typically take classes at other institutions like Cornell and do not have to work as TA’s, as there are no undergraduate students. The university recently lost its accreditation from New York State and had to get accredited by a regional body.