Boston University reviews

- BU is massive and de-centralized. Offices and departments feel siloed and do not have equivalent access to the university's resources. Consider whether the office you would be joining is well or poorly supported. - At least half of the folks I relied on for critical functions didn't care whether they did their own jobs well, let alone got me what I needed so I could do mine. - Given its size, BU has to rely on a patchwork of technology solutions rather than one all-purpose tool. The result is a disjointed network of systems of varying degrees of sophistication, few of which play well together. - Lots of the technology currently in place is antiquated. I'm talking DOS-level antiquated. I came from a small, entrepreneurial consulting form and felt like I was time-traveling back at least 20 years in terms of the technology I had access to at BU. - As a nonprofit, I assumed BU would be mission-driven. It is not. It is as numbers- and revenue-driven as a typical for-profit, with none of the managerial acumen or operational know-how of a successful commercial venture.

"Transitional" is the keyword. For your own personal and professional growth, you might have to find a different place to work. Bureaucracy is a slow grind, almost deliberately so. One must constantly remember that BU is a big incumbent business and not the spry start up we want it to be.