UCLA Reviews in Los Angeles, CA Area

Pros

The working style is Flexible. You don't need to care about the working schedule. It is also easy to have vacation as long as you finish work on time. There is not interest conflict between colleagues.

Cons

It often happens to be a salary cap in the University.

Pros

Very prestigious, working with highly intelligent people motivate me to do my best as well. I made many friends who I found to be helpful.

Cons

Payment could have been better, but I didn't expect too much as an undergraduate student. Thank you for the experience.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up the good work, UCLA is the jewel of California and United States and we need to keep producing world leaders.

Pros

- There are a number of employees who are brilliant, extremely talented and kind people.
- Quality reputation from the outside looking in.
- Good benefits

Cons

- Everything you know about bad management is here.
- Funds are constantly inappropriately allocated. Paying high fees to outside contractors where the same (most likely - much better) job can be done in-house.
- Not rewarded or recognized for achievement unless you among the select few who ALWAYS get the pat on the back and some $$ added to their paycheck.
- Huge employee turnaround.
- Inability to think about the future of the organization strategically.
- No opportunity to grow, advance within the department.
- Low salaries for most employees (but high salaries for upper management).
- Relatives, friends and friends of friends of senior leadership get hired for high positions (often incompetent and not qualified for the job), where qualified existing staff isn't even remotely considered for advancement.
- Although there is a huge budget crisis, money is always found when a perfectly fine senior level manager's office needs to be "renovated" and new designer furniture bought.

Advice to Senior Management

Ask yourself, "What have I done that is positive within the last year"?
Ask yourself, "How many extremely qualified individuals have come through these doors and quit? Why did they resign?
Check the pulse of your team once in a while and see how they are doing.
Listen to criticism because your job is not to react but solve issues or make things within the unit work better and employees happier. Happy employees=productivity and progress. Haven't you figured it out yet?!

Pros

Great people; great university; good location; and if you find the right manager, can learn a lot from them about your job

Cons

no room for job growth; all the upper-level management spots are filled or they hire from the outside. either you're just starting your career, or you have years of experience.

Pros

Good environment and pleasant coworkers.

Cons

Difficult to move up and poor benefits.

Advice to Senior Management

Focus more on what is important, such as education, not money.

Pros

UC system is best educational organization. Moreover benefits is not over the average of the industry.

Cons

Traffic and living expense is killing. Promotion is not a option in my branch. Congested.

Pros

good pay for on campus job
great management
you get to meet a lot of very diverse and accomplished people

Cons

you have to work on saturdays a lot, and around finals scheduling can be tight, there is a little bit of micro-managing but overall not bad

Advice to Senior Management

rotate saturday shifts between clerks, all too often all of the clerks will be on staff just sitting around not doing anything, might be more effective to have each person work harder on just a few saturdays rather than twiddle their thumbs on all saturdays

Pros

reputation as a good school, Los Angeles weather, respected hospital

Cons

poor leadership in some departments. Good mentors, especially in the medical school are few and far between

Advice to Senior Management

develop professional mentorship programs and make them easily accessible to staff and students

Pros

I worked as an RMT for UCLA Rec. Great experience as far as college jobs go.
-Maintain facilities and equipment, hands on work
-Manage small teams of other students as you get better
-Super flexible, excellent for students who have school and other commitments

Cons

-Because it is 100% hands on, on some days it does get tiring
-Pay does not scale, you max out fairly quickly as a lead

Advice to Senior Management

Add opportunities to grow within Recreation department/facilities
More weekend shifts, more side jobs, more opportunities to make side money
Make swim team do their own start blocks.

Pros

The hourly wage as a peer learning facilitator at Covel is arguably the highest of any on campus job, and the group of tutors are all very tight knit. Good communal environment at the workplace.

Cons

In the current economy, budget cuts to public schools is really hurting employment at UCLA. Funding and many parts of the program are being cut, and their future is uncertain.

Advice to Senior Management

It may be very difficult in the current situation, but keeping the peer learning program is crucial to the success of students and the well being of the institution as a whole.