University of Pennsylvania Reviews

Former Employee – worked at University of Pennsylvania part-time for more than 3 years

Pros – - Flexible Hours
- Freedom of convenience (when to finish cases, what order, how, etc...)
- Simplified Payroll Reports (online, spreadsheet)
- Access to ITA tools (antivirus, etc)

Cons – Management does not necessary understand what each case means, so they are sometimes dubious of longer cases (reformatting harddrive and reinstalling operating systems, things of those nature). However, if you are patient and explain, they are very cooperative.

Advice to Senior Management – Make sure there is always a non-graduating student employed who understands the basic layout, so he/she can pass on their knowledge. This job is very hands-on or it is ineffective, so having a 'teacher' available makes all the difference.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at University of Pennsylvania part-time for less than a year

Pros – Large faculty to help, great resources, prestige of an Ivy.

Cons – Dirty, old buildings, state-school confusion.

Advice to Senior Management – Can be improved much.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at University of Pennsylvania part-time for more than a year

Pros – Excellent Staff
Excellent assignments and programming

Cons – It's hard to think of a Con

Advice to Senior Management – Continue to encourage employees and staff

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at University of Pennsylvania

Pros – Great professors and fellow students.
Cutting-edge techs you will be exposed to.

Cons – No specific cons. Probably some of the professors are a little bit push.

Current Employee – been working at University of Pennsylvania

Pros – Director are nice and talk to me about my teaching experience. They provide us an office so that we TAs can communicate with each other as well as students.

Cons – No promotion. And the work load difference is large with the same salaries

Former Employee – worked at University of Pennsylvania full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Good benefits - retirement contributions, tuition benefit

Cons – Poor leadership, lack of employee engagement

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at University of Pennsylvania full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great place to work, good benefits, and friendly co-workers are the best reasons to work here. They also allow you to take 2 free classes per semester if you are working full-time.

Cons – Lots of paperwork and long processing times for every interaction with HR or the business office makes things that should be simple a lot more complicated and time consuming.

Advice to Senior Management – In certain areas of Penn, especially the animal facilities, there is a lot of nepotism within the management. It engenders bad will with the rest of the staff.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at University of Pennsylvania full-time for less than a year

Pros – Great tuition benefits. Staff can take classes for free as soon as they start work.
Easy hours -- Could just be my department, but hours are generally very flexible and allow for you to take care of other things that go on in life.

Cons – Low pay is my only con. I also feel like there are not many opportunities for staff to get together, but this may just be a function of the fact that there are numerous departments here.

Advice to Senior Management – More competitive salaries for entry level workers would boost morale, and help take care of loans that recent college graduates have amassed.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at University of Pennsylvania full-time

Pros – honest, friendly, dependable, smart, computer literate

Cons – none everything about him is great

Advice to Senior Management – none- nothing to add here

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at University of Pennsylvania full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – To best describe the research scenario in University of Pennsylvania is like tasting a drop of the ocean. With its ancient history of education rooted by William Penn and dreamers like Benjamin Franklin to inventing computers in 1800's ..Penn is all set to be awarded gold in red and blue for its academic excellence and vitality in bringing the innate desire or passion of every young scientist aspiring to become Einsteins

Cons – Well the security is always beefed up and no visitor is allowed any premises..even it happens to an Alumni (of course to who doesn't own a Rolls Royce or Mercedes). Second thing is some professors have grown so tough (thanks to the environment) that they don't even talk to people at some instances. Fees are way up high and only very few eligible candidates can afford that much..

Advice to Senior Management – Bring in more young faculties and establish research careers in Bioengineering fields and support innovative discoveries with start up grants and accommodate young faculties who could do something useful to the humanity rather than just bringing in grants to feed the institution, as the institution grows not only by money but also by the depth of scientific understanding and intellectuals

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company