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4.1

77% would recommend to a friend

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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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2.0
Oct 11, 2010

UCLA External Affairs

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Benefits are fantastic and reasonably priced. Work/life balance is the best I've seen--rarely is overtime expected or even needed. And the job is relatively stable.

Cons

In one word: management. The middle management level is completely bloated, and managers seem to be long-time employees rather than expert leaders. (I realize the two aren't mutually exclusive, but in my area, they seem to be.) Management knows less than employees and, because of their ensuing insecurity, doesn't provide staff with the appropriate latitude to do their jobs. Even the more competent managers lack vision and leadership. If you chafe at being supervised by someone who doesn't have the ability and knowledge to do your job, then UCLA External Affairs is decidedly NOT for you. Also: bureaucracy and its ensuing inefficiencies can be problematic.

2.0
Feb 17, 2009
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Pros

Great flexibility, great job security, good place to retire, good benefits (health/vision/dental). Little to no stress, little overtime. More than average time off with many recognized holidays (Caesar Chavez, President's Day etc).

Cons

Low opportunities for growth, low salary compared to industry. Oftentimes, great work and good jobs go unnoticed or unappreciated. Employees pay for parking (approx $60+/month). Leadership and management is lackluster at best, if things are working well it's great but when it isn't don't expect any significant change. Some politics from higher and middle management that can negatively effect morale and work.

2.0
Sep 26, 2008
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Pros

CTS offers a good balance between work/home time. Rarely did I ever have to work more than a standard 8 hour day. In fact I don't think I ever worked more than an 8 hour day and most of that was spent sending emails to my boss, my bosses boss and team members ensuring they had an exact record of my daily activities. Working a weekend was absolutely unheard of. There were many times where I was told that if I was finished with everything for the day I could take off. Of course that was when I had the one good boss out of the 8 over the course of my 5 years there.

Cons

Politics were rampant. I didn't trust anyone with anything I said and spent most of my time writing emails so a record of what I said, did and accomplished was available. I watched as many of my co-workers who weren't as adamant about keeping records were torn apart publicly for mistakes made by those who accused them. There was one instance where a particularly political individual called a meeting to publicly embarrass me in front of my peers. She was told by someone else that I had done something that I was not 'authorized' to do. In the middle of the meeting I interrupted her and the person accussing me of wrong doing and asked if I could be excused for 5 minutes. She said yes. I left, printed out copies of the email I sent pertaining to this issue and handed them out to everyone in the meeting. I was then called into another meeting the next day to be torn apart for embarrassing her.

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