Terrible place to work, best pay - Cook UCSF Health Employee Review

2.0
30 Oct 2016
Recommend
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Pros

If you manage to get a set schedule then that can help in balancing your work and home life. Also, pay is probably the best. Benefits and pensions are a plus.

Cons

From management, to coworkers, to customers (and those include other UCSF employees from other departments)...this has been one of the worst places to work for. They expect us to take verbal and emotions abuse and when those actions are reported, you get told your job isn't as stressful as their job or they tell you to still be warm and smile and to suck it up. Yet, there is no way ANYONE would be able to take that abuse and continue to smile. No support, toxic and lazy people get away with everything. They push the hard workers to do more and it's not right.

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5.0
22 June 2026
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Pros

Opportunities to learn new skills. My team is excellent.

Cons

New leadership models prioritize profit over employee well-being. They are starting to thin out our staffing more and more. Morale is very low right now on our unit ...

1.0
6 Apr 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The people that work at UCSF are some of the most intelligent analysts I've ever worked with in 15 years of Health IT. Most are ex-Epic employees with strong backgrounds in project managament and IT,

Cons

UCSF recently decided to reclassify all remote employees as "Felxible" without their input or permission. As a result, employees must now travel to the office WITHOUT expenses paid. This means that flights, hotels, etc. are NOT reimbursed and are paid by the employee. UCSF has not answered to what problem they are trying to solve with this, and refuses to answer how this action aligns with goals such as sustainability (carbon emissions), equity (women and disabled are more impacted by eliminating remote work), working accommodating (UCSF does not have the physical space for all of the Clinical Systems department to be on site. There is no locked storage or accessible workspaces.), safety (there is no shuttle for UCSF to all locations that have been mentioned for work). UCSF limits employee growth, by eliminating actual promotions with "role based work". In other words, you have to do more work without compensation for it. They have also completely reneged on remote management, meaning that most employees are now at a dead end.

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