University of Southern California Reviews
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- Current Employee, more than 10 years★★★★★
Pros
Love the academic environment, fantastic retirement, healthcare, and tuition benefits.
Cons
Regular merit increases are typically very low without pushing for a raise or title change. Bureaucracy is increasing, especially with IT.
- Former Employee★★★★★
Pros
Flexible hours, good pay for a student, opportunity to learn
Cons
Pay is not by academic term, not hourly
- Former Employee★★★★★
Pros
Understood that I am a student and offered flexible hours
Cons
The pay could be higher since they increased our tuition, even during COVID.
- Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
I really love USC. Fight on!
Cons
Nothing more to say. That's all.
- Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Worked for different offices at USC including VPD, Annenberg's Marketing and Communications department, the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, Leonard Davis School of Gerontology social media team, and for the Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture and gained so many great experiences and learned so much from each role. The pay varied but was always at least minimum wage in the state of California.
Cons
Could only work 20 hours a week with school.
Thank you for taking the time to share your insight! At USC we try our absolute best to embody a supportive and engaging environment for our employees. We are pleased to hear that your experience has been positive! Thank you again for sharing your experience. Fight On!
- Former Employee★★★★★
Pros
Great benefits and company culture
Cons
It's hard to think of cons
- Former Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Pros
they often offer 401k matching a lot of people work there before doing their master's here
Cons
slow changes from the administration
- Current Employee★★★★★
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I work remotely and my hours are flexible.
Cons
A pay raise would be nice.
- Current Employee★★★★★
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Has a very nice working environment
Cons
Salary is not competitive enough.
- Current Employee★★★★★
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Easy, quick, manegable, flexible, fun
Cons
Limited creativity, boring, repetative, no rewards, little recognition
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University of Southern California has an overall rating of 4.4 out of 5, based on over 3,991 reviews left anonymously by employees. 83% of employees would recommend working at University of Southern California to a friend and 67% have a positive outlook for the business. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.
83% of University of Southern California employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews. Employees also rated University of Southern California 4.1 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.0 for culture and values and 4.0 for career opportunities.
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