Working at Emory University in Atlanta, GA: 48 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Atlanta, GA Area

"Grade: A+Education, D- HR Depart, F Training Dept., good for beginning or end of career job."

What do you like about working at Emory University?

"If you enjoy learning there are many opportunities to gain knowledge outside of your job."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Recruiters are slow and unorganized. You will probably need to follow up with them to help move the process along once you are contacted. Be patient."

What don't you like about working at Emory University?

"Hire Managers with no real life experience. They just have degrees with book knowledge without practical experience. Training Department is the worst. Incompetence abounds."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Gain project management/development experience that is more than classroom based. Having a Ph.D or Masters is great but so is work experience."

"Great place to work, but don't expect great pay."

"I'm a full time student at Emory. It's a convenient and rewarding to work part time here."

What do you like about working at Emory University?

"It was great to be able to balance work and personal life. There were good people at the Woodruff library of the General Libraries division where I worked."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"The Healthcare side of the University is more consistent and financially stable. Try to find a job on the healthcare side."

What don't you like about working at Emory University?

"3 years ago Management changed and the new manager (vice provost) stopped listening to employees."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"University management as a whole was good. However a few of the many divisions have a problem. In my previous division they need to listen to employees. Also it is bad PR if you RIF employees to save money and right after the announcing the RIF turn around and spend $50,000 to rearrange cubes, $12,000 for mounting a new large screen LCD TVs on the front of the entrances and such."

"I spent 2 months at Emory midtown; the position was not the right fit for what I specialize in."

What do you like about working at Emory University?

"I didn't get to experience it too well to make a good analysis."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be careful...make sure you are not convinced to be in a position that you are told you will get a tremendous amount of help."

What don't you like about working at Emory University?

"They said that they would find and place me somewhere else and did not follow through."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Following through with what you tell an employee would be a good quality to adopt within yourself; try not to get yourself in a place where you are controlled by the system; be real; or your reputation can be tarnished and you won't be trusted."

"This is an excellent place to work."

What do you like about working at Emory University?

"It is a safe environment, great expertise and benefits."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"You will love it there."

"I actually loved working there, left to grow professionally and increase salary."

What do you like about working at Emory University?

"People."

What don't you like about working at Emory University?

"Salary."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Offer flex hours, increase pay (esp for bachelors prepared nurses)."

"Good job."

"Working at Emory University was an absolutely fabulous experience, knowledge, work and personal life balanced."

What do you like about working at Emory University?

"Work environment."

What don't you like about working at Emory University?

"Nothing."

What do you like about working at Emory University?

"It was my first job out of college and it was a good experience in the field of recruitment."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Understand that Emory is not as growth oriented as other companies."

What don't you like about working at Emory University?

"No upward growth."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Provide more avenues for growth."

"Emory University is its own worst enemy."

What do you like about working at Emory University?

"My co-workers."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"The policy is to apply online, so definitely do that. But also find out who the hiring manager is and make sure you get your information directly in front of them, as a lot of good people are overlooked by the recruiters. Also, make sure you negotiate for a decent starting salary, as it is very difficult to receive a decent raise once in the system."

What don't you like about working at Emory University?

"Emory University is holding itself back from being the best of the best. Their marketing department is staffed with incompetent people which is one of the reasons the whole rebranding campaign is a failure. Staffing with incompetent people seems to be a theme of Emory University."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Find recruiters that have specialties, e.g. marketing, nursing, etc. That way there may be a better chance of Emory hiring competent people. Also, once in the Emory system, it was close to impossible to receive a decent raise. The only way to get a good raise is to leave the University and get hired back in another department."

What do you like about working at Emory University?

"Wonderful place for students and the like."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be yourself."

What don't you like about working at Emory University?

"The salary."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Not sure. Their hands were very much limited in many of their choices and decisions."