Don't Be Mislead - Anonymous employee Penn State Employee Review

1.0
Oct 16, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Vacation time, usually very low expectations.

Cons

Poor benefits, poor pay, poor environment, poor morale, failure of most staff to meet even the lowest expectations, horrible management, disturbing culture, dysfunctional HR system, etc. If you look carefully you'll notice that most of the positive reviews here are not by full-time staff. If you have any ambition whatsoever, this is not the place for you. The culture here is one of self-perpetuating mediocrity, at best. The benefits gets less and less each year and the only way to get a decent raise is to apply for jobs elsewhere in the system and wait to get an offer to find out if it's any better.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

Decent Benefits, Nice Amounts of Time off

Cons

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