Enriching academic environment with diverse smart student body - Anonymous employee UCLA Employee Review

4.0
Jan 26, 2014
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great work/life balance, depending on position and department there is room for creativity and initiative; superb benefits; between myriad of daily talks across campus, campus training and employee-reduced UCLA extension courses there is room for learning and improvement. Beautiful campus, nice people, great environment to work in. Great place to be if one likes students and idiosyncratic people.

Cons

There is a cast system, determined by academic degree, that prevents people from rising through ranks, irrespective of ability, intelligence or commitment. Salaries tend to be low but benefits are really good.

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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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