Sanger Institute Reviews

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

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

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

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Distance from campus
Salary
Not that many good benefits

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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 press and on social media.
Sanger has always preferred to appoint from within (perhaps part of the above problem?) and has made some frankly bizarre internal appointments recently.
 Perhaps this is because our poor reputation locally has made it difficult to recruit decent candidates, but the recent appointment at the very top of scientific operation by the executive has left many people frankly gobsmacked and has led to even more high profile departures. A real case of 'the inept appointing the incompetent' as one observer put it.

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

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Poor benefit schema, campus located far from Cambridge

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- Non-research staff are not valued
- Things move slowly
- Can be bureaucratic

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A bit far from the city.

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I worked at the institute for four years as a postdoctoral scientist. The institute has a very poor and unhealthy working environment. Full of nepotism, favouritism and politics that a new comer international employee cannot understand. This is reflected in different management levels. After talking to othee peers, I relaized my case is not rare and happens commonly at other groups. If you are qualified international scientist, esp. from Asia, avoid this place.