Good overall but for staff research positions, compensation is low compared to industry averages. - Anonymous employee UCLA Employee Review

4.0
Jul 29, 2013
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good benefits including medical, dental, and retirement. Acceptable coworkers, fair supervisor. Raises are automatic because of union.

Cons

Fairly poor compensation compared to industry standard- tends to hire at bottom of pay scale and with 3%/yr raises, it will take years (if ever) to catch up to a similar position in a private company or even with government.

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Cons

A colleague was laid off today. She was with UCLA for 10+ years. She got a meeting invite with 10 minutes notice. Her Director read out a cold statement that her position was eliminated and handed her over to the HR. Her manager came running to her cubicle and told her she had 2 minutes to pack up and leave. He insisted that he accompanied her to her car. Many other colleagues had similar or worse experiences. All Managers and Directors and above saved their jobs. And they sacrificed many individual contributors.

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