Run from DTS/OneIT - Programmer/Analyst III UCLA Employee Review

1.0
Feb 8, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Lots of holidays and time off Low pressure because nobody cares 100 percent remote because of lack of real estate

Cons

Upper management is out of touch and tone deaf, with no tech skills. Universally hated my everyone who isn't new or a chronic brown noser. Directorships are populated by lackeys from their previous tenure at USC. A "new org" was created requiring everyone to apply for new jobs or get fired. Many people got pay cuts for taking jobs with more responsibilities. They are gonna do it again and fire a ton of people in trying to smash all 40-something IT groups together. Massive waste, projects will spend hundreds of millions then have the plug pulled with nothing to show for it Braindead change control Vapid staff meetings with obligatory Land Acknowledgements that we all make fun of privately Zero culture Most long time (pre 2013) staff are just waiting for their pension to max out to bail Zero career advancement opportunities, subpar pay

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Cons

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Pros

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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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