Good place to work if your life is more important than your career - Programmer Analyst IV UCLA Employee Review

3.0
24 May 2011
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Pros

Lots of smart people. Lots of flexibility in work arrangements. Laid back environment. Pay is decent given the benefits and freedom. Big place with lots of interesting things going on.

Cons

Lots of people who don't work very hard. Hard to figure out why people are managers. Pay stagnent and probably going to drop (furloughs). Big place. Sharp divide between professors and staff. Political.

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5.0
5 Jun 2026
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Pros

Good benefit, good pay, good location

Cons

bad work life balance, no promotion

2.0
5 May 2026
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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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