Johns Hopkins University Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"I received my PhD at Johns Hopkins. I took graduate courses in the medical school and engineering school. I worked in cell biology and was able to collaborate with exceptional faculty in my research field."

"The work is great, but the entrenched management is sclerotic and unresponsive. Focus has gone away from PI initiated research to project manager directed work based on sponsor relationships. So the place is starting to resemble a Lockheed or a Boeing."

"Moderate place to work in."

What do you like about working at Johns Hopkins University?

"Job Security in a declining job market where private sector jobs are drying up."

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

"Be very sure to talk to others in similar positions at Johns Hopkins- The view inside is much different than the view from outside"

What don't you like about working at Johns Hopkins University?

"The place is decentralized full of little waring kingdoms run by tyrants"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Not get wrapped up in my pet projects while avoiding and ignoring the people on other projects that actually make the place go."

What do you like about working at Johns Hopkins University?

"There are experts in just about any field on the premises - generally quite intelligent individuals for coworkers."

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

"Make sure to be very specific about what you will be working on once you start - that can change quickly if you aren't careful. Also, try to talk with everyone you'd be working with."

What don't you like about working at Johns Hopkins University?

"Arrogance permeates the entire operation to the point that it is almost like working in pure academia."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Stop hiring strange individuals who lack social skills, and only focusing on their technical abilities."

"JHUAPL has too many layers of bureaucracy for a research focused organization. To little of the budget is spent on new research projects for a university affiliated laboratory. The lab is becoming just another beltway bandit."

What do you like about working at Johns Hopkins University?

"I like the good benefits, flexible hours, lots of resources."

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

"be very careful about whom you work for, some good and some are awful"

What don't you like about working at Johns Hopkins University?

"excessive competition, crazy people, mentors concerned w/getting grants and furthering themselves and view mentees as cheap labor"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"encourage more collaboration and less competition, make expectations clearer, create a more progressive/open-minded environment"

What do you like about working at Johns Hopkins University?

"The university as a whole plays an important role in the world."

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

"Be sure that you are ready to be swept in the wave of energy. Yes, there's excitement, but there's also bureaucracy and disorganization."

What don't you like about working at Johns Hopkins University?

"No sense of purpose or personal buy-in to the cause. I am not fulfilled and my creativity, humor, and connection are lost here."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Slow the pace down and pay more attention to buying into the cause."

What do you like about working at Johns Hopkins University?

"job security, prestige, partner and children health insurance, great insurance benefits, close to home"

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

"Beware the golden handcuffs, be ready for some heavy politics,"

What don't you like about working at Johns Hopkins University?

"I am not working in the community, I feel that some of the people I work with are out to get me, I don't see how what I do makes a difference"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Work more collaborative, less political, more emphasis on public health"

"Hopkins offers very good retirement and tuition assistance, benefits but the pay is terrible, many people don't even get cost of living increases, the entire atmosphere is incredibly passive aggressive, and there's zero growth potential. Systems are entrenched. Efforts to change things are usually resisted. I'd warn pretty much anyone against working here. Don't get lured in by the benefits. It's not worth it."

What do you like about working at Johns Hopkins University?

"conviences'"

What don't you like about working at Johns Hopkins University?

"insurance take out pay for insurance and you get bills for labs and ohyscian fee, HR is nasty in the IntraStaff, no one responds to your app' hiring takes long,"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"allow the staff to be promoted;train your staff to be divers' HR offices staff is very nasty to people seeking jobs"