Good for meeting people while in school but not on permant basis - Anonymous employee UCLA Employee Review

4.0
Aug 26, 2009
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Pros

Easy access around campus and good for quick experience but not many opportunities for growth outside being a student employee. However, management positions do open and they do consider former student employees.

Cons

No benefits as a student employees. Career employees get paid more than students for doing the same job which is completely unfair.

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5.0
May 28, 2026
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Pros

Amazing, high impact work, great collaboration

Cons

I commute which is hindering because nearby places are so expensive

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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