Pros
Really good benefits including winter closure during Christmas/New Year's, health insurance, 403b (vesting after 3 years of service), 6 free counseling sessions for any topic, sick days that roll over, 2 floating holidays etc. Emory has been fair during Covid and only cut higher salaries in order to keep jobs and benefits for all. Emory provided an early vaccine to me in Feb/Mar 2021 which is a huge privilege. Emory is one of the largest employers in Atlanta and offers a wide variety of fields to work in. Pretty good work life balance.
Cons
Emory is a traditional conservative academic institution. The biggest issue is that you have to move out to move up. HR is generally reluctant to allow promotions, CRCs are treated like a number. All that matters is that you bring in research funding, that gives you the authority to behave unprofessionally or mistreat employees. Director level leadership have absolutely no accountability, as there is no process to give feedback up to leadership. PIs are usually disengaged which can lead to very young staff randomly becoming director level leaders without any supervisory experience, training or supervision. There is a certain elitism (we are better than xy because we are at Emory) that affects working relationships especially with external collaborators. Office buildings are usually very old, toilets always clogging, AC units not working correctly. Emory assigned remote work designations in the fall of 2021 which would allow one day at home max for jobs that can be done fully remote.