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      Administrative Incompetence & Poor Outlook - Anonymous employee UCLA Employee Review

      3.0
      Oct 6, 2023
      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      The students are great! I appreciate UCLA's communicated values, and there are some great employees there.

      Cons

      I was shocked at the level of administrative incompetence at UCLA. It takes forever to get any administrative task completed, and lots of balls get dropped. I constantly found myself nagging others to do their jobs. The sad part is that I don't think it was due to individual employees, but instead due to chronic understaffing because they are underpaid and underappreciated. My direct supervisors were also intense micromanagers; despite having managerial roles, it was clear that they had never had any managerial training and were not able to run an effective team. There also wasn't enough opportunity for career advancement.

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      5.0
      May 28, 2026
      Postdoctoral researcher
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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
      Anonymous employee
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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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