University of Texas System Reviews

Pros

Job challenges are very good and I got to learn management and leadership skills

Cons

Compensation is very less when compared to the similar positions at other organizations

Pros

There are some very competent people working here but in general these people are not in leadership roles.

Cons

There is a lot money wasted by this organization for unnecessary high level employee 'perks' that is really sad considering we are cutting staff at lower levels.

Advice to Senior Management

UT needs to stop their leadership's politcal arm wrestling and and start focusing on more worthwhile objectives such as research, patient care and retention of good employees.

Pros

You receive so many transferrable skills and great benefits.

Cons

They are starting to cut back on the benefits that they give in order to increase their profit. RA's no longer have their own rooms! Change is so slow!

Advice to Senior Management

Patience is very important, especially when dealing with aggressively, belligerent parents and students. All the training prepares you, but situations that arise really test your character.

Pros

friendly atmosphere which enables you to give your best

Cons

not much of technical job

Advice to Senior Management

None

Pros

Knowledgable people. Connections among institutions.

Cons

Administrative cutbacks. Departmental silos. Budget limits.

Advice to Senior Management

Minimize layoffs with budget cutbacks; good people here.

Pros

Flexible, time to study on the job, gain work experience, fast-growing university, working on campus is great if you study there as well

Cons

Pay for a student worker is very low, Student Workers can only work a maximum of 19.5 hours a week.

Pros

decent benefits, good amount of time off, nice to work in an academic environment and be part of something bigger than yourself.

Cons

It is a very silo-ed organization. Seems like the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing. There are pockets of very inept management and they seem to skate along under the radar and create a hostile and uncomfortable work environment. In certain positions and departments there is not any room for upward movement in positions. They hand pick those people they feel have potential and provide them with a few resources to better themselves but most people are left to fend for themselves.

Advice to Senior Management

Try to create a better work environment. Look at management and weed out those who are not benefiting the organization. Ideas of Texas is a good start but I don't see much action happening to fix the things employees have pointed out.

Pros

Nice people, nice environment, opportunity to learn new things

Cons

if you are a research assistant it is temporary.

Advice to Senior Management

good work

Pros

UTD has good research facilities. As a grad student you get freedom to enjoy off time and vacations. Good career counselling for engineering but not sciences...Good intellectual satisfaction. Good faculty members.

Cons

Not satisfied with career counseling in sciences. Dallas in general is a boring place if you are an outdoorsy person.

Advice to Senior Management

Improve career counseling for sciences

Pros

State position, great vacation, sick time and benefits

Cons

There is no formal grounds for promotion, no up line for promotion and all raises are based on state estimates, not department/individual performance