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Great Place - If You're in the Right Department - Manager Caltech (California) Employee Review

2.0
Feb 24, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

- Great retirement contributions - Wonderful co-workers - Good work-life balance if you're in the right department - Beautiful Campus

Cons

- It takes months to get anything approved - Annual Salary Increase barely meets inflation - let alone higher health contributions and more expensive parking year after year - Plan on making less net pay based on increased annual deductions - Low pay for many jobs because they use the national average rather than California average to determine salary - People work here forever, so they are uncomfortable with any type of change - Old, outdated processes of doing things - In my department severe lack of communication - Managers in my department hired their friends, not the most qualified candidates - My department required many people do tasks outside of their job. If it was addressed with your manager, the response was, "other duties as assigned." - Rarely any growth unless you switch departments

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5.0
Jul 14, 2026
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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
Jul 20, 2026
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Pros

Experience depends on Department and Professor. HSS is supportive of their employees, some great admins. Career development programs and other educational opportunities. Lots of brilliant researchers. Grad student and postdoc union.

Cons

The university is no longer supportive of HSS. Salary is typical for this position, which is bad. Departments are somewhat siloed, not so much collaboration. Federal funding cuts are having bad effects on operations and research.

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