UCLA reviews

4.1

77% would recommend to a friend

(5,742 total reviews)
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Gene D. Block

70% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

UCLA has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 5,742 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The UCLA employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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6K reviews
1.0
Nov 29, 2022
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Pros

The students are amazing and continuously blow me away with their passion, drive, and intellect. Hard-working colleagues who keep you going.

Cons

Poor administrative leadership. Lack of transparency is the standard culture. No merit increases. If you work hard, you're punished by being assigned more work without additional pay.

2.0
Jun 11, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible schedule and doesn't require a lot of brain work.

Cons

Very disorganized, low pay, company does not value employees and work life balance. During COVID, we didn't get a merit raise and no one knew why until we found out a year later that the University had a salary freeze. During this time, the vice Chancellor did not take even a second to explain to us about the salary freeze, better yet, she never even brought it up. She stayed quiet the whole year and till this day still did not explain to us why we didn't get our merit raise the previous year. She's a terrible leader. When the pandemic first hit, she only looked out for herself. She had started working from home a few days prior to lockdown but didn't let anyone in the office know that she was working from home nor did she allow the whole department to work from home. It was only until the City announced that anyone 65+ had to stay home because they are high risk for COVID. She then sent our Director home because she was 65 at the time and was retiring that June. The Vice Chancellor also does not care about her employee at all. She pretended to care by giving us a survey to ask if we prefer to work from home or not and the results came back with 90%+ employees prefer work from home 100%. However, the Vice Chancellor was super upset that they surveys didn't have the outcome she wanted because majority of us prefer work from home because she wants to go back to office. Right now she's working on pulling us all back in office knowing full well we prefer to work from home, so i'm not sure why she even offered that survey. Some other UC's have implemented permanent work from home so i'm not sure why UCLA has such a hard time allowing that as well. Our Vice Chancellor know full well that a lot of us have to commute 4+ hours a day just to get to work which is why we prefer work from home but she gives zero care. Overall, I just don't think they care about their employees at all and they don't pay well and there's no room to grow here at UCLA.

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