Nice place to work but salaries are low and workload is high - Director UCLA Employee Review

3.0
4 Jul 2014
Recommend
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Pros

You have a lot of flexibility and opportunities to develop new areas. There are plenty of talented people in all fields to collaborate with and endless original topics of interest.

Cons

Not surprisingly, UCLA if very "faculty centric" and if one does not have an academic title it can be difficult (though not impossible) to work within the system. In particular, writing proposals for new research funding and hiring people to do research work is much more difficult.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
5 Jul 2026
Recommend
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Pros

None that I can think of

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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