Oxford Reviews in Oxford, England

Current Employee – been working at Oxford full-time for less than a year

Pros – Unique experience and steeped in history.

Cons – Very slow to change and tends to keep inefficient systems and staff for a long time.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Oxford for more than 3 years

Pros – Great place to be to learn and to meet great crowd of people

Cons – Too much old senseless traditions

Advice to Senior Management – Smile

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Oxford full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Enjoy the life at Oxford is a one-time-in-a-life experience. The spirit energised in academic/research work often makes you feel so previliged to work there

Cons – It's lack of mordern facilicities, but for a 900 year old univ/city, what can you complaint for? However look out for the slow pace of life since it may well kill your ambition slowly...

Current Employee – been working at Oxford full-time for more than a year

Pros – Location - Oxford is a great city specially if you like Science and Academia in general as there is plenty with free talk by very important lectures every so often.
Salary - for a being a non-profit organization the pay is good. For many positions, University of Oxford staff get better salaries than in other other university in the UK including London based institutions and the increased cost of life there.
Flexibility - as for most non-profit organization in the UK you have flexible hours and home-work when necessary.

Cons – You still probably would get pay better in a company, but the pay is nonetheless good.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Oxford full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good working environment and friendly coworkers. First and second post doc positions have been similar and worthwhile. Research is fun and interesting with good development progress.

Cons – Teaching opportunities have been fine and easily attainable for me as I was an undergraduate here, however many colleagues haven't been able to get experience.

Advice to Senior Management – Post docs should be found college affiliation.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Oxford full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Academically stimulating environment, interesting people allround. Tip: as a postdoc make an effort to join a college / other social environment.

Cons – Somewhat transient and very student oriented. Could do with a better set-up for postdoctoral researchers that are new in town.

Current Employee – been working at Oxford full-time for less than a year

Pros – - research groups that work to understand the genetic foundation of human disease
- multidisciplinary research
- on the edge seminars and talks
- in- house services like sequencing etc

Cons – - car parking
- long working hours
- equipment getting old and brakes often which means a lot of down-time
- badly organised

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to employees feedback.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Oxford as an intern for less than a year

Pros – I spent 3 months at the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Oxford during my PhD studies. I was a great opportunity to work with state-of-the-art medical devices such as MEG and fMRI sanners, with best processing techniques. The Principal Investigators were very welcoming, we had meetings to share ideas, and the data was provided to me, so that I could develop my own ideas.

Cons – No compensation. Went at my own costs.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Oxford full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Life and work balance. Multiculture working place. A lot of internal support.

Cons – not much rewards and benefits

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Oxford part-time for more than 3 years

Pros – The students are ambitious and wonderful to teach (mostly), and the libraries and community of scholars is vibrant and ambitious, if occasionally overly-competitive or a few years behind the trends.

Cons – Few, and increasingly fewer, tenured jobs, with more emphasis on by-hour and adjunct teaching, which means no payment for marking and prep. I was once told that, because I was based at a different college to the one I was tutoring for and was a grad student at the time -- that I had no right to photocopy for my students and that therefore any photocopies I needed for class would come out of my £22 per (classroom) hour wage. In general, Oxford knows that the brand has capital, and that academics cannot be choosy about their jobs in this market, and it seems to take full advantage of these facts by treating their employees as people who should be grateful just to be there.

Advice to Senior Management – Professionalise your approach: ensure that everyone ranging from full professors and chairs to graduate tutors can benefit from salary and per-hour wage transparency, a clear year-by-year salary/wage ladder, and a federalised expectation of what colleges should be providing to their tutors outside of basic wage and/or salary. In general, federalise teaching provision and payment as much as possible: opportunities, hierarchies and support ranges far too drastically from college to college.

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