Interesting and challanging workplace with a certain extra - Programmer Analyst II UCLA Employee Review

4.0
Aug 16, 2013
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Pros

- Young and interesting environment due to students and world class education - Fair salaries and good benefits, excellent infrastructure (car pools, gym, pools, hospitals) - Different work climate due to close interaction with faculty and the teaching side - Positive work life balance

Cons

- Sometimes bureaucratic, especially in terms of change - Often clocks tick slower here, especially in terms of management decissions - Lower salaries than in the "free economy"

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5.0
Jun 5, 2026
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Pros

Good benefit, good pay, good location

Cons

bad work life balance, no promotion

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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