Solid organization - Anonymous employee UCSF Health Employee Review

4.0
23 July 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Largest employer in San Francisco. Organization is great and people overall are very nice. Great teaching school. Several opportunities to learn and grow. Benefits are good job was not stressful but always felt like you helped the community.

Cons

Even though they post several opportunities they take forever to get into them. Many times they are already been given to inside employees. With such a large company they try to avoid nepotism but it is alive and thriving here. It is a good company but people can be hired for wrong reasons. They need to change culture to be more progressive. The clinical side is great and researchers and MD's along with nurses are amazing, but due to budget cuts and state problems other areas can be hurt such as administrative. it can be difficult to move up even if you have the degrees, it can come to your title on resume. Personality fit is also important, after lay offs the wrong people were let go and the true workers were left to find new jobs. Power for some people who have never managed before it be dangerous.

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Opportunities to learn new skills. My team is excellent.

Cons

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1.0
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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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