UCLA Reviews in Los Angeles, CA Area

Pros

- Room and Board as compensation
- Development of marketable skills
- Good work environment and many opportunities for networking

Cons

- Department focuses too much on development at times
- Inefficient meetings
- Resident Assistants assigned many tasks unrelated to the job description and expectations

Advice to Senior Management

- Be flexible with your employees who also double as students
- Use positive reinforcement and encourage personal development at times

Pros

The work is quite interesting depending on adviser. Lots of instrumentation available.

Cons

Pay is very poor. New graduate students get automatic raises, older students do not.

Pros

Enormous exposure, work with the cutting edge

Cons

Management is not transparent, UC systems are bankrupt

Advice to Senior Management

Involve general members in decision making, there are no academics in the Regents

Pros

beautiful campus, conveniently located, a relatively diverse demographic and excellent networking opportunities if one is both charismatic, ambitious and persistent. daily amusement as well.

Cons

i don't even no where to start! First, you must know that ucla is only conducive to minimal growth if you do not know the right people and have an extroverted enough personality to smile or joke your way into an array of professional opportunities. The second and only thing you need to know is that UCLA is more blue than it is gold even when the sun is shining---and it shines often.

Advice to Senior Management

value student employee professional development in an active way, encourage your employers to discontinue drawing distinctions between student workers and full time employees---it's divisive and therefore counterproductive (and a bit unfair too).

Pros

very relaxed and fun environment to work in. there is always someone there to chat with. work here if you like interacting with many different characters

Cons

some residents were very rude and difficult to deal with. management is a little oblivious so some of the problems faced by the staff

Advice to Senior Management

the management at uan should work in the field more often to fully understand the staff and their decision making process.

Pros

Great environment for ideas development

Cons

Ferocious competition. You are as good as your last grant

Pros

good work environment
treated fairly
good benefits
worker protection is pretty good and no one is asked to do something they are uncomfortable with doing

Cons

pay is kind of low for the position

Advice to Senior Management

pay a fair market rate to reduce turnover

Pros

large school with a lot of resources, diversity, great faculties, student life and sport/gym/entertainment facilities are great, and of course the weather

Cons

bureaucratic; salary isn't high enough due to the living cost in LA; it's easy to get lost since it's such a big school

Pros

UCLA has good location, the professors are willing to interact and help out the students. The California Nanosystems institute is there as well

Cons

Sometimes you feel like your not important, also sometimes your costudents/coworkers can make you angry. Professors usually go for research that gives the most money, not what is the most interesting especially the MAE department

Pros

Flexible environment, lots of smart people, lot of dumb people. Very big place so YMMV in different departments - very decent benefits although things are changing.

Cons

Very difficult to advance without transferring around to different departments. A lot of deadwood employees just hanging around to collect retirement. Having to deal with faculty can be a headache sometimes.

Advice to Senior Management

Not really - it is such a distributed environment it depends on where you are in the university, some places are great others not so much.