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      Run, don't walk, away from this place! - Administrator UCLA Employee Review

      1.0
      Jul 15, 2025
      Administrator
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      Pros

      Gorgeous campus, nice, dedicated facilities management staff, solid benefits (if you choose the right health care and dental care!), holidays, vacation time, a few days during the winter break are paid.

      Cons

      Bottom line, it's a toxic environment - a total plantation. The managers often don't know how to interact with people well and have very little emotional intelligence or humanity so you're dealing with what may appear to be robots a lot of the time. It's disheartening and disturbing. They'll also create certain restrictions for people they don't like with illegal practices. This place seriously lacks ethics. Read the comments on Reddit - they're absolutely spot on.

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      5.0
      Jun 5, 2026
      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Good benefit, good pay, good location

      Cons

      bad work life balance, no promotion

      2.0
      May 5, 2026
      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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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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