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Stanford University reviews

4.3

83% would recommend to a friend

(5,722 total reviews)
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68% positive business outlook

Stanford University has an employee rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 5,722 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Stanford University employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.8 stars).

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1.0
Sep 19, 2009

The university within the university.

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Pros

You help to educate about 40,000 K-7 students in Mathmatics. Many of the older employees care very much about this and have become quite qualified over the years. They're "true believers" in education, and if you're one too, you'll have plenty of friends. Central Stanford has good benefits, organization, and training oppourtunities. Thanks to a brilliant head of programming, the technologies running the software that students and teachers use is quite sophisticated. It's a good place to learn many technologies if you're an engineer, though you'll have to deal with a lot of legacy.

Cons

Salaries are only about 60% of what similar positions are payed within other departments of the university. Salaries are dramatically low, which leads to high turnover and an inability to fill desperately needed positions, often for half a year or more, since almost no one is willing to work for so little. Often offices and promotions that properly belong with more far more experienced people who have been at the company for many years are lost as perks to attract people into new positions. A middle-management layer was recently introduced as the group got larger, however these were a mixed bag mostly from much larger companies and most of their styles clash badly with the software / process we actually have. Differing opinions of how to proceed on projects were hard enough to reconcile years ago, and the clash has exacerbated that. There's definitely a lot of cultural shear as the older academics and engineers are being displaced and driven away by generic non-technical business people. The software and processes have a technical complexity at this point that's beyond the technical understanding of the head of the organization, almost all of the middle management, and about two-thirds of the ground-level employees.

3.0
Sep 17, 2009
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Pros

Stanford graduate school have a great reputation for academic placement. Plus it is hard to beat the Palo Alto location. If you enjoy the student life, and enjoy the northern California outdoors, then Stanford is the place for you.

Cons

Many professors do not care about advising grad students -- only publishing. This can vary by department, but is especially true in the sciences and engineering. Also, the quality of the teaching can be quite spotty. This can be especially disappointing considering Stanford's giant reputation and astronomical tuition.

5.0
Sep 16, 2009

Great place to research and study

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Pros

Stanford is an incubator of ideas and breeds quality academics, professionals and industry leaders. Compensation is competitive and you feel a true team environment.

Cons

Stanford has been around for a long time, so there's no surprise that the bureaucracy in this academic environment can sometimes be slow to move.

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