Sanger Institute Reviews

Pros

Fantastic institute for genomics research. There is no other place for genomics research within Europe.

Cons

I cannot think of concentrate negative points about the Wellcome Sanger Institute except that the Sanger Institute is quite distant from Cambridge.

Pros

Good research environment Strong computational facility

Cons

Not a lot of wet lab research

Pros

- Very relaxed working environment - Lots of lectures and events to go to during work times

Cons

- Can be bureaucratic at times - Non scientific staff can be valued less

Pros

Excellent facilities and equipment. The best of everything. Lovely campus. Free bus to site from Cambridge

Cons

Site is located in the middle of nowhere. Salary wasn't great and Cambridge is an expensive place to live

Pros

Nice Campus Diverse coworkers Cutting-edge research Good support system

Cons

The pay is often not competitive - but this is academia.

Pros

Good reputation, excellent genomics facilities, opportunities for learning new lab techniques and bioinformatics.

Cons

Expensive place to live, pay relatively low compared to expenses.

Advice to Management

Improve pay and benefits

Pros

Great collaboration Excellent resources Free transport to and from campus

Cons

Distance from campus Salary Not that many good benefits

Pros

The institute has nice grounds, a good restaurant and gym. It is also well funded (although for how much longer?) which means that you can usually get the equipment that you need.

Cons

Under the CEO's direction the institute is returning to it's roots of sequencing and pretty much nothing else. It's a shame since a lot of the transnational science that we had been doing was pretty interesting, but perhaps we were getting too diverse. That said, the rationalisation has been handled very badly, with lots of disgruntled staff being released into the local community and many negative stories in the national...

Advice to Management

We seem to have destroyed the reputation of a great place. Our reputation in the local area was getting bad before the Guardian articles and now it's even worse. Not sure what can be done really, might be time for a clean sweep and a few people to fall on their swords? Failing that, perhaps the institute in it's current form has run it's course and it's time to shut it down and replace it with something different?

Pros

Good life-work balance. Benefits, flexible working hours. Great vibe

Cons

Sanger owns all your work, you can do freelancing or anything outside

Pros

Flexible hours, Great to develop external collaborations, Free shuttle bus from-to the campus to many sites around Cambridge, Onsite gym

Cons

Poor benefit schema, campus located far from Cambridge