Good place for a young scientist - Anonymous employee Penn State Employee Review

4.0
Jan 31, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good life/work balance, and people are very nice here. Staff are also very nice to international students/scholars.

Cons

Old building and lab, some labs are still using supplies from 1970's???

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5.0
Jun 27, 2026
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Pros

They were very flexible with hours and it was a fun place to work. There was lots of downtime to do other things while on the clock, and an e-bike to get around campus quickly.

Cons

Toward the end they got pretty strict about keeping your computer on a certain tab to take online tickets, and you could get in trouble for not doing it. It’s tedious work overall.

4.0
Jun 30, 2026
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Pros

Great Benefits, Vacation, Sick Days, Personal Days

Cons

parking is normally far away from your building, and normally growth within your unit is difficult, so you have to tranfer to another to grow.

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