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Tulane University

Is this your company?

You can bust your butt, and no one will care. You can also do absolutely nothing, and no one will care - IT Manager Tulane University Employee Review

1.0
4 Sept 2015
Recommend
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Pros

-Free MBA -Campus is pretty and nice to walk around when you need a break from how crappy your job is

Cons

-Salary is terrible, only reason anyone should work there is to get the free MBA. They were trying to get a web developer for 42k. In the private world, any decent web developer is 60k MINIMUM. -On that subject, management routinely slashes salaries by 10% when someone quits, so if you're applying for a job, you're probably making substantially less than the person before you. They call it the cost of "knowledge transfer" but when pay is so terrible, it'll take 5+ years to match that. -Don't expect any decent raises. -There's so much bureaucracy and nonsense, don't expect to get anything accomplished. People don't want to change what they're doing. They'll hide behind their job descriptions and refuse to do anything new -I don't know if the Tulane culture wears people down or if they join Tulane because they don't want to do much, but people here do the bare minimum. There are a few good people who actually want to do something right, but they usually leave or give up hope after a few years. -Health benefits are pretty mediocre for a school that owns a hospital network

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5.0
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Pros

Great boss and flexible hours.

Cons

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2.0
18 June 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible work schedule (if in the right lab, not guaranteed) Really great coworkers. You can generally learn anything you show an interest in or need in other MRS in the center. We all tend to stick together. Additional paid leave through winter break on top of generous amount of PTO. Tuition waiver to Tulane

Cons

Truly falling apart, both physically and systemically. Physically the place is a disaster and borderline unsafe. Im surprised OSHA hasn't been called due to instances of unknown chemical inhalation, people autoclaving things they shouldn't, high CO2 levels with no functioning alarm. Not only that but the water quality is wildly unreliable. Systemically, you are underpaid and overworked, not appreciated and chronically strung along by a dangled carrot. You can out perform everyone on the team and be passed over for promotions because of a million different excuses. By design you are shoved down until you stop hoping for better. Management all around sucks because for many the only way to move up or forward is to go into management. These are Scientist that are just shoved into management roles and told to do their best. Everyone suffers for this. They have no training, and despite being good people, tend to completely mismanage teams until only the favored are left. This is true for the lowest managers but all the way to the top.

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