I've worked in several departments at Stanford and have found nothing comes close to the School of Engineering with respect to the way they treat their employees. It's a male dominated society where you even have the department chairs telling their employees that "professors and staffers can do the same things...one gets a slap on the wrist, the other gets fired immediately". It's interesting to have experienced first hand what goes on behind closed doors at one of America's finest institutions. Where hard work and intelligence get you ahead in the classroom, schmoozing, butt kissing, and repeatedly putting others down get you ahead in the workplace (not to mention, complete neglect and reassignment of one's own work to others).
Come to Stanford if you don't mind feeling like you're completely worthless and undervalued and if you feel ripe to take a beating from "management". The funny thing is ... a number of the top "managers" in the School actually never even completed their degrees, lying on their resumes about their qualifications. As if having completed an EDD or a PhD in English would actually prove their worth.
Did I mention you're essentially working for free?
