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Boston Children's Hospital

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Abysmal environment for Marketing Department employees - Marketing Boston Children's Hospital Employee Review

1.0
17 Mar 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Great institutional mission Talented and caring medical staff

Cons

Senior departmental leadership that is as mean-spirited as it is ineffectual. Complete lack of strategy or long-term planning. Expectations that seem to shift by the minute with no tangible results, even years later. Sky's the limit attitude on spending when it comes to consultants and pet projects, while claiming there is no money in the budget to give hard-working staff full-time status with benefits. Constant foul-mouthed, nasty snipes from senior departmental leadership, including about other leaders in the hospital. Verbal and emotional abuse of a group of staff who really care about the hospital but are exploited and belittled at every turn. And perhaps worst of all, top hospital brass that either doesn't know or doesn't care how bad things are...despite an almost 100% staff turnover since present departmental leadership took over.

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Pros

Great mission and values employees

Cons

Very low pay for the cost of living

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Pros

An amazing work culture is the strongest pro- supervisors, and PIs are generally very accommodating of flexible work schedules and working remotely. Overall, it is a very chill option for a pre-med gap year job that pays decently for the effort. Pay isn't great, but definitely enough to survive in Boston and save a tiny percentage each month. Diversity is great.

Cons

Some PIs are verbally abusive (I wish I were exaggerating). There are a few PIs with a high level of turnover (1 new assistant each year or so) because they cannot work with subordinates on a human level at all (which is sad because that's pretty much the only major con).

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