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MD Anderson Cancer Center

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Best public sector employer - Human Research Protections MD Anderson Cancer Center Employee Review

4.0
16 Mar 2021
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Pros

Better pay than other universities Great overall work culture environment Respectful and ethical employees Employees really care for the mission of the institution Constant institutional training 3% pay increase yearly Small bonus around december, sometimes. Job is generally secure (no layoffs during pandemic) Allowed to work from home during pandemic Can reimburse for continuing education Generous time off and sick time Healthy food selection at cafeterias Generally understanding management

Cons

Double the workload compared to other institutions and pressure on timelines Management preaches work-life balance but pushes for the opposite. Management frowns upon extended time off (2 weeks or +) Fast paced, high stress workload Some area managers care more about numbers than the sanity of their employees Expensive parking that should really be included if you work in the area Sick time policy makes it so you use your vacation time for the first 3 days before it kicks in Cannot donate sick/time off to another employee without getting taxed for those hours on your paycheck Upper management keeps changing processes/SOP's and expects everyone to know new processes very well. Constant management and management style changes Some managers are very good and easy to work with, others are the complete opposite and people have migrated from the department as a result.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
30 Mar 2026
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Pros

Its mission to cure cancer is great. The research in some labs is groundbreaking.

Cons

There are hand few departments that do weird hiring of people of a specific demographic only (not mentioning which). Most PI s are of that said demographic. And some labs on this department don’t hire people within the US who are truly deserving just because they must hire people from that said demographic from that country. The Chair and Professors openly communicate in non English. So for any other demographic it is hard to secure employment, hard to understand what is being said. One PI forces their ethnic culture on lab members and can ruin your life if you don’t play along. Very little time is spent by some Professors doing research. They mostly write grants and create some preliminary results for a work to write more grants. Even in funding shortage times a lot of research allocated money is spent by some PIs to unnecessarily travel to international conferences frequently making it paid vacations which ideally are suposed academic endeavors. Oncologists have less attitude than the dry lab scientists often.

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