A good place for locals; a harder sells for anyone on the outside - Anonymous employee Penn State Employee Review

3.0
Dec 9, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits and flexibility. Values and culture are important to the new president.

Cons

Low raises. Salary low for overall market. Hard to attract/recruit outside expertise because of low pay. Hires low-level IT people with our senior level-mentors, so not all IT work is done in an efficient scalable manner. Penny-wise, pound foolish since a senior IT person with one or two lower level people can do the work of 5 lower-level people and have a much better product.

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5.0
Jun 27, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

They were very flexible with hours and it was a fun place to work. There was lots of downtime to do other things while on the clock, and an e-bike to get around campus quickly.

Cons

Toward the end they got pretty strict about keeping your computer on a certain tab to take online tickets, and you could get in trouble for not doing it. It’s tedious work overall.

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