University of Waterloo Reviews

Pros

Pace and expectations are reasonable

Cons

Pay is not as good as private sector

Advice to Senior Management

More communication wherever possible about future direction

Pros

i live on campus. i like being a student because i can have summers off and im not in co-op so i don't have to work all the time.

Cons

it is stressful, i sometimes don't have enough time to go groccery shopping because of this and i have to buy unhealthy cafeteria food.

Advice to Senior Management

you could try caring more about individual students and realizing that instead of bell curving a midterm or exam, you could actually fix your course.

Pros

It is located in a small place. It is one of the top universities in Canada. Depending on the department, it is great place to work, or a horrible place to work.

Cons

In general the bureaucracy is onerous. Some coordinated classes are very large and there is very little flexibility. As I mentioned earlier, some departments can be a horrible place.

Advice to Senior Management

I prefer not to write anything here.

Pros

Relaxing, innovative minds, good reputation for scholarship appication, nice people, good professors who really care about the students, nice working environment

Cons

limited resources for VLSI design, long cycle time for VLSI tape-outs, limited funding, not well-known in the world, small town, low-pay for research assistants

Pros

you have your own office; work with students, professors, and other researchers; living cost in Waterloo is low; close to banks, doctor's office, dentist, restaurants.

Cons

quite difficult to get a permanent position as an external applicant; the hiring policies are not very clear.

Advice to Senior Management

hopefully when some questions related to hiring are asked in Human Resource department, someone in HR could be able to answer them instead of asking us to go back and ask our faculty stuff.

Pros

The people here are all very nice and understanding. The facility and community is also excellent.

The hours are very flexible

Cons

Pay is not very good...

Pros

You get a chance to work with fantastic talent here. There's also a lot of opportunity to move around.

Cons

Bureaucracy and red tape often gets in the way of doing something that can really improve the University

Pros

At school environment, most importance is research

Cons

Compare to other companies, the worst is the low payment

Pros

The working environment is more research oriented.

Cons

There were not enough helping tools and the associate departments were very slow to act. Someone needs to push again and again to get the job done. Also the paymeny was not good.

Pros

There are some very talented undergraduates. Job hours are quite flexible. Cost of living is quite low.

Cons

Colleagues are very unfriendly. Compensation is mediocre, and not merit-based. Difficult to recruit good graduate students.