M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Reviews

Former Employee – worked at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center full-time for more than a year

Pros – Better benefits than some other academic institutions, I.e. paid vacation.

Cons – Terrible training and lack of mentorship. Also department admins will disrespect you to the best of their abilities

Advice to Senior Management – Management was absentee for the most part.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – The majority of faculty and staff are very committed to the mission and vision of this once great institution which is to provide the best treatment for cancer patients and to develop much better approaches to treat and hopefully cure cancer patients.

Cons – The new leadership is arrogant, nepotistic, ruthless and driven by their own personal agendas. Their behavior has embarrassed the faculty and staff in a very public way. They have set of a two tier system, where the new hires for the "Institute" developed by new leadership are paid 2-3 times what faculty and staff are while not being held to the same performance standards. Faculty morale is at an all time low, with >50% of faculty stating that they will leave within the next 3-5 years. The leadership style has been very destructive and has resulted in faculty fleeing from this once great institution on a weekly basis. There have been multiple demotions and firings of faculty and staff who do not do the bidding of the new leadership. The national press is now calling for a downgrading of the #1 rating of MD Anderson in Cancer Care by the US News and World Report. Although once this happens -and it will happen- the leadership will be called to account for this actions, it will be much too late to recover from the multiple programs that have been destroyed. We have become a laughingstock nationally, with a recognition that the grand "Moonshot Program" is nothing more than a fund raising ploy to provide money to supper the senior leadership research programs in this era of low grant funds and sequestrations.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – you do nothing all day and do not learn new skills. you snooze but you don't loose.

Cons – higher level positions do not have a background in IT and care about finishing projects on time rather than emphasizing quality

Advice to Senior Management – get more qualified PMs and It professionals not hobos off of the street with questionable degrees and career goals.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

Pros – Retirement benefits (pension and healthcare), vacation accruals and ability to carry over.

Cons – No career advancement, no bonuses, low compensation.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

Pros – the benefits are pretty decent

Cons – the salary is ok depending on the job

Advice to Senior Management – get more training

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

Pros – Good benefits and retirement plan. Clean and new work environments. Well known brand name for your resume. Good work-life balance.

Cons – No promotion growth and really hard to transfer to another department. Management is full of nepotism and lacking respect towards CPAs. Their mission emphasizes "Caring" values but they don't practice this towards their employees. Here, it doesn't matter how intelligent and hard you work, if management doesn't like you, then you are out of luck. People with the wrong attitude and poor management style get promoted over you. Human Resources is full of red-tape bureaucrats and make impossible demands that you be the same people person as everyone else. Once you become a senior accountant, then it's time to leave. Staying here too long can hurt your career.

Advice to Senior Management – Management's attitude hurts moral.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

Pros – This is a prestigious facility with a lot of financial resources.

Cons – No recognition for a job well done, underpaid, overworked, not respected by management, top heavy with managers without enough people to do the real work, no management support from upper management, territorial 'pissing' matches, academic snobs.

Advice to Senior Management – realize new graduates can't run your facility. patient care is suffering. you're expanding too fast. take time and support your staff.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

Pros – Good reputation as being ranked number one in USA
Lots of specialties
Good hospital for cancer treatment
New technologies
Sponsor H1B visas

Cons – Very poor management. Predominantly hispanic community. They spend a lot of money on buildings and useless meetings and conferences but don't even pay a little for coffee. Clinical side gets all the attention, research people are being exploited. Very low payscale for PhD candidates and post doctoral fellows. On-campus housing is shared with UT-Houston and there is a very long waiting list. Employees need to pay for parking.

Advice to Senior Management – Match the payscale for research jobs to national standards and compensate for annual inflation rates and rising market prices. Affordable on-campus housing is needed. Free parking for employees and trainees. Open all jobs to outside competition and be fair with the selection criteria. How will you achieve diversity if you do not recruit outside talents.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

Pros – Good hospital and ammenities - the institution's mission is to make cancer history. Progress is made every day, be it slow.

Cons – No respect for business professionals, you will be treated nothing. Micro management empire - esteem killing jobs. I have never been happier since I left that dead end job. And the executive management is the worst - all very educated MDs with zero business sense and gigantic egos.

Advice to Senior Management – With non-business people running business - you can't be helped.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend