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Boston Children's Hospital

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Easily able to sway employees with the honor of working here! - Anonymous employee Boston Children's Hospital Employee Review

3.0
10 Mar 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Currently the leading pediatric hospital in the US. Job security. Great health benefits

Cons

Incredibly low pay. The hospital thinks that the honor of being able to say that you work for them makes up for being paid significantly below market value. The hospital is also more concerned with expanding and trying to remain #1 in the country than they are with retaining quality employees. It is nearly impossible to get fired if you make it 90 days (probationary period), but this means that horrible employees are guaranteed to continue working with no way to force them out. Very little career advancement.

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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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