Great opportunity, development of many transferable skills - Resident Assistant UCLA Employee Review

4.0
Jan 19, 2012
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Pros

- Room and Board as compensation - Development of marketable skills - Good work environment and many opportunities for networking

Cons

- Department focuses too much on development at times - Inefficient meetings - Resident Assistants assigned many tasks unrelated to the job description and expectations

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5.0
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Pros

Good benefit, good pay, good location

Cons

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2.0
May 5, 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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