horrible - Senior Software Engineer UCLA Employee Review

1.0
Feb 27, 2017
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Pros

It has an okay compensation. Also the workers here some of them are nice.

Cons

UCLA has a horrible policy towards its workers. First off UCLA and the UCs squander money unnecessarily. But also, it then cuts funding to things that matter like research and its workers wages. The location is also terrible since transportation will always be an issue. Please save yourselves the trouble and do not work here.

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

Decent benefits, but not really as great as everyone assumes. Some colleagues who really care and do great work. Impressive students.

Cons

Relatively poor pay and pay inequities. Extremely poor fiscal management - that CFO who was fired for outing it was spot on. Senior administrators and faculty are incentivized to spend a lot of money on things that serve few students and hoard resources to make themselves look good for performance reviews and tenure committees, but it means a lot of extra work gets dumped on a growing a number of mid-level administrators and support staff - who now face layoffs or added workloads. It's all strangling the university's ability to serve its students, but I know several faculty members simply don't care about students or teaching.

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