University of Houston Reviews in Houston, TX Area

Pros

My job was to teach undergraduate students...
 - very interesting
 - opportunity to understand the thought process of many different students

Cons

- Had to complete graduate studies and so had to balance time.
 - Graduate assistant-ship was revoked a few years back for my position.

Advice to Senior Management

None

Pros

Low entry barrier
Relatively relax environment
Easy access to library
One can work on some long term projects without short due days

Cons

Lack of frequent and stimulating communication between co-workers.
Lack of interactions with industry.
Many important journals are not available online.

Advice to Senior Management

Offer flexible working hours.
Encourage more interaction with outside.
Subscribe to more online journals.
Don't waste money on building decoration, brochure printing and distribution.

Pros

University is great - department is not.

Cons

Low pay, low morale, incompetent supervisors, no promotion process, poor equipment, micromanagement.

Advice to Senior Management

Move on!

Pros

teamwork, organized and schedule based kind of work!

Cons

Problem on funding, schools always suffer from financial problems!

Pros

Learning environment, availability of tuitiion assistance if I decide to take a few more classes; paid holidays.

Cons

Everything moves slow business process wise.

Advice to Senior Management

Not at this time.

Pros

You feel proud to be a Coog! Knowledge is shared freely and you have the ability to grow as a developer.

Cons

They need to figure out who should and should not work there. Just because they have a PHD in their salutation does not mean they know how to be upper management.

Advice to Senior Management

You should learn to flatten the organization a little more. Maybe checking up on the lower-level employees and learning from them.

Pros

Wonderful team player, challenges in learning new ways to develop a webpage utilizing different programs.

Cons

Updating Academic Calendar with new events

Advice to Senior Management

More communication needed not only to full time and staff workers, but also student workers.

Pros

Very flexible scheduling ,decent technology if you know the right people, great benefits, awesome gym with literally anything you want, very pretty campus

Cons

no annual raises, promotion is difficult, parking is impossible and cost a check or two, traffic is horrible as it hold right under 40000 students alone, easy to get lost

Pros

In your own school. You get to work with professors. You also might get a job through them. Overall OK.

Cons

Commute can be pain. parking can be painful. Low salary close to 1000 a month. you will loose other opportunities in corporate world.

Advice to Senior Management

Make the TA job better. It really sucks. Specially with GATF cut off, i don't see why anyone in their right mind would work for you.

Pros

Gave me my first job, always appreciative for that
Provided training

Cons

Moving up is difficult. People really hold on to their positions