Research is a Hit or Miss experience depending on Mentor - Assistant Project Scientist UC Riverside Employee Review

My experience was bad because of terrible mentor, cronyism/ conflict of interest was rampant in my department. Department Chairs hire family, bypassing the better qualified. Unfortunate, but some terrible faculty here get promoted because peer review is severely lacking. Faculty are too busy to see what is happening. A thirty year hire can really wreck a department and it did