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Boston University reviews

4.2

81% would recommend to a friend

(3,694 total reviews)

Dr. Melissa L. Gilliam

91% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

Boston University has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 3,694 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Boston University employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Educación industry (3.7 stars).

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4K reviews
1.0
Sep 24, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Many of the people you will work alongside are excellent dedicated professionals. Unfortunately they will be fired/resign for speaking up.

Cons

A severly toxic Theranos-like organizational culture.

3.0
May 28, 2021

Military Culture

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great pay and good benefits. University open 24 hours, so you can find jobs at all shifts.

Cons

If you were 1or 2 minutes late, manager will make a note of it and reprimand you either verbally or through your paycheck taking 30 minutes off. If you took a break for 17 minutes instead of 15, it was also noted. You were never allowed to talk back, voice your opinion. Agree with everything and just say "Yes, Sir", then you will might get promoted after a long while. Very military-like culture - surprisingly for a university, perhaps the paying students are allowed creativity and freedom, but not the supporting staff. This employer is obsessed about sexual harassment, don't know if they were sued or trying not to get sued, but I was required to watch long-long-very-long s. harassment preventative videos at least 4 times during my short employment there, and I am almost a grandma, who is going to s. harass me or who am I going to s. harass at this point? - I am lucky if I have enough energy to pick up groceries at Stop&Shop. BU employs almost 10,000 people, so I do not know if mine experience is indicative of other departments or other managers, but that is what I felt.

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