Nice place, but difficult to grow - Programmer/Analyst III UCLA Employee Review

4.0
28 Apr 2015
Recommend
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Pros

IT is generally decentralized at UCLA, which means you may be working on a small group and have a lot of input on the direction of your projects. The campus is beautiful and most people who work there are great. Work/life balance is excellent. There are several technology groups and professional development programs that can help you from feeling locked away in your tiny department.

Cons

Because of the decentralization of IT, it can be difficult to learn from co-workers or to move up in the organization. Promotion is often diagonal into another department, which may have drastically different culture. Some employees are complacent and not interested enough in doing great work.

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Cons

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Pros

Decent benefits, but not really as great as everyone assumes. Some colleagues who really care and do great work. Impressive students.

Cons

Relatively poor pay and pay inequities. Extremely poor fiscal management - that CFO who was fired for outing it was spot on. Senior administrators and faculty are incentivized to spend a lot of money on things that serve few students and hoard resources to make themselves look good for performance reviews and tenure committees, but it means a lot of extra work gets dumped on a growing a number of mid-level administrators and support staff - who now face layoffs or added workloads. It's all strangling the university's ability to serve its students, but I know several faculty members simply don't care about students or teaching.

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