A culture obsessed with ranking but not with doing good work - Staff Engineer Vanderbilt University Employee Review

The management is underhanded, Parasitic and overpaid. The university loses money due to farcical administrative blunders, then they make up for it by cutting benefits, pay, vacation/sick time and retirement. The cuts are strickly carried out on lower level employees. Worse still, they make the cuts in 'tricky' ways, thinking that staff are too dumb to notice. The university has a snobbish culture, wherein every faculty thinks they are a 'star', even as most of them do unimpressive work, play publication and grant games, and schmooze around instead of doing good science, scholarship or teaching. The pay seems ok for academic work, but rent, housing, food and other costs are quite high in Nashville, making the pay effectively poor unless you want to spend a lot of time commuting on congested highways.