UCLA Reviews

Pros

(Some) talented and diligent department work colleagues. The professors. The alums.

Cons

I invite readers of these Glassdoor reviews to access the websites of UCLA colleges and their development (i.e., fundraising) departments. "Surface" the names and job titles of the fundraisers. (You might even get head shots.) Then ask yourself: do you see gender parity among their fundraisers? The fundraisers skew heavily female. In a contemporary workplace world of college graduates that is closer to a 50:50 gender ratio. Next, look up their Linkedin profiles. Access their educational attainment. Do you see a diversity of colleges and universities as their alma maters? No. UCLA disproportionately hires its own alums into their development departments. Where's the EEOC hiring diversity? The lack of hiring discrimination? "Alums hire alums." As a consequence, fresh thinking and new ideas and new practices never germinate. Groupthink and mediocrity are allowed to grow like kudzu.

Pros

Flexible schedule and doesn't require a lot of brain work.

Cons

Very disorganized, low pay, company does not value employees and work life balance. During COVID, we didn't get a merit raise and no one knew why until we found out a year later that the University had a salary freeze. During this time, the vice Chancellor did not take even a second to explain to us about the salary freeze, better yet, she never even brought it up. She stayed quiet the whole year and till this day still did not explain to us why we didn't get our merit raise the previous year. She's a terrible leader. When the pandemic first hit, she only looked out for herself. She had started working from home a few days prior to lockdown but didn't let anyone in the office know that she was working from home nor did she allow the whole department to work from home. It was only until the City announced that anyone 65+ had to stay home because they are high risk for COVID. She then sent our Director home because she was 65 at the time and was retiring that June. The Vice Chancellor also does not care about her employee at all. She pretended to care by giving us a survey to ask if we prefer to work from home or not and the results came back with 90%+ employees prefer work from home 100%. However, the Vice Chancellor was super upset that they surveys didn't have the outcome she wanted because majority of us prefer work from home because she wants to go back to office. Right now she's working on pulling us all back in office knowing full well we prefer to work from home, so i'm not sure why she even offered that survey. Some other UC's have implemented permanent work from home so i'm not sure why UCLA has such a hard time allowing that as well. Our Vice Chancellor know full well that a lot of us have to commute 4+ hours a day just to get to work which is why we prefer work from home but she gives zero care. Overall, I just don't think they care about their employees at all and they don't pay well and there's no room to grow here at UCLA.