Working in a Bioinformatics Lab - Anonymous employee UC Davis Employee Review

5.0
Sep 28, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

+ Plenty of flexibility with work hours and vacation time. + Faculty are friendly and are open to providing advice and guidance. + Lab culture is very nurturing and promotes both learning and development of programming skills for bioinformatics. + Working on research projects and seeing them to completion so that they may be submitted for publications. This allows for increased experience in applying bioinformatics in modern research as well as scientific writing. + On campus food is always a short walk away.

Cons

- Salary will not be as generous as an equivalent position in industry - For entry level positions (e.g. Junior Specialist) there is not a system of promotions.

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