Brigham Young University (BYU) Reviews

Pros

Great environment to work in.
Helpful management.

Cons

Low pay
Hard to park on campus to get to work

Advice to Senior Management

Bump student pay a little bit

Pros

BYU offers a ton of convenient and decent paying jobs for students to develop their skills in their chosen field of study while supporting themselves through school.

Cons

Job placement can be competitive, and sometimes students early in their education lack the qualifications to be placed anywhere but grounds crew. However, the Office of IT provides several entry-level opportunities for driven students.

Advice to Senior Management

Less office politics would be nice - there are a lot of good ideas that don't get implemented because it will somehow damage someone's pet project, etc.

Pros

The staff is very friendly and easy to work with. BYU as a whole is very focused on it's students and bettering the generation of tomorrow, that's something I can be proud to be a part of.

Cons

All the limitations and difficulties of academia apply, though I don't think that it really has much to do with BYU.

Advice to Senior Management

Try to give your faculty more opportunities for growth.

Pros

Decent pay for a college student. Choose your own schedule and can choose not to come in any time. Location is right in the library.

Cons

Only a student job. Can not work there after graduating. Limit to 20 hours a week during the semester. Sometimes there's a lack of work to be done.

Pros

Great for a college student. Opportunity to gain valuable experience for a resume. Decent pay. Convenient to work and attend school on campus.

Cons

Hourly wages tend to be fixed within departments. The school is very large, and often times it seems very bureaucratic.

Pros

It is a good place for student jobs because they work around your schedule and get to experience how it is in a full-time position.

Cons

Not much opportunity for growth inside the university because the position is open mainly for student workers. Not very organized system.

Pros

The values and commitment to education among BYU employees is very high. Supervisors and administration are also willing to accommodate employee's home/family responsibilities.

Cons

It can be difficult to move up within a position. If you want to receive more challenging assignments (and the commensurate increase in salary), you will likely have to seek opportunities available elsewhere within the University.

Advice to Senior Management

While there are good resources for employee training (technical and educational), there is a ceiling for staff, in terms of their ability to grow within a position.

Pros

-Great students
-Moral and clean environment
-BYU invests in the individual - your growth is important to the institution
-Leaders are leaders because they are sacrificing, not because they want to be leaders

Cons

-Pay is not comparable to other academic institutions (lower)
-Parking on campus is challenging
-There is a lot of red tape

Advice to Senior Management

Thanks for all that you do. We are all better off for the sake of your sacrifices and your efforts to lead us.

Pros

If you would like to be involved in the education experience and see the influence of your teaching span the globe through students you influence in your classes and jobs than this would be the place for you to work.

Cons

The pay is less since you are working for a private university as well as the school is currently undergoing major expansion projects that are currently requiring many changes in departmental leadership and additions to faculty.

Advice to Senior Management

My advice would be to encourage the currently faculty and leadership to give solutions to problems during the Q&A sessions in order to stimulate ideas for improvement that are plausible and realistic.

Pros

Very good work environment, excellent colleagues, excellent benefits

Cons

stressful due to very high work load

Advice to Senior Management

lower the work load in order to reduce burn out