Virginia Tech reviews

4.3

87% would recommend to a friend

(2,893 total reviews)

Timothy D. Sands

79% approve of CEO

71% positive business outlook

Virginia Tech has an employee rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 2,893 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Virginia Tech 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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3K reviews
1.0
Feb 10, 2016

No Career

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Work life balance, benefits, Beautiful area

Cons

"Boring", Biased Salaries. No Growth opportunities. No career whatsoever. Someone has to die/ retire for a position to open up. once the position opens up, they "know" who would get it. Fake promises. "Men" consider superior. "country" attitudes. I am quitting very soon.

3.0
Aug 13, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Virginia Tech gives good benefits and is a nice place to work.

Cons

The salary was very low for a person who had more than 5 yrs experience after completion of a doctoral degree.

4.0
Dec 27, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Great benefits. - Great people to work with. - Small development teams/shops allowed me to focus on all areas of the development stack without requiring me to specialize in one thing and stick to that one thing. - Management does a great job focusing on me as a person and helping me better myself professionally and as a person. - Definitely an 8-5 job. When I get off of work at 5, I don't have to worry about working at home to make a deadline, etc. Had very, very few emergency calls to step in and fix issues.

Cons

- Being a state-funded university, there aren't the "normal perks" of being a software development shop, such as the Xboxes, ping pong tables, etc. But, they try to make it comfortable with nice equipment and work areas - Without being a large development company, sometimes, the development pipeline isn't very full or flushed out, which causes downtimes. Not a huge issue, but does cause some thumb twiddling

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