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Florida State University

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If you're looking for a great education, you can certainly find it here. - Anonymous employee Florida State University Employee Review

5.0
15 Oct 2013
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Pros

Large University with many academic/administrative departments and organizations; work-study opportunities available for qualifying students; University scholarships automatically awarded to students with high-academic achievements; abundant scholarships/student project funding available to students upon application. Whether living on or off campus, embraced in "college" atmosphere and experience. Work/study/life balance manageable; tuition extremely affordable (Florida Bright Futures program qualifies almost all residents 50-100% tuition discount). Large, but contained campus with stunning brick landscape. Vast selection of coursework and extra-curricular opportunities available for every student. Infectious school spirit!

Cons

Large university can be overwhelming; easy to get lost in large student body. More specifically, only basic academic advising/related services provided for general student body (lack individual attention available at smaller institution). The advising departments for individual majors (especially larger majors--e.g. Biology, English) exhibit very low level of inter-departmental communication; student must be own resource/department liaison. Many amazing professors willing to mentor individual students; however, generally must excel academically or otherwise to form relationship with professor (and FSU student body is a very large crowd to stand out from).

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5.0
25 June 2026
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Pros

Great company culture, great worklife balance, amazing opportunities to grow in role and within the team.

Cons

The pay isn't so great for OPS positions, but as a first job, it has led to many great opportunities to earn six figure salaries later into my career.

1.0
3 June 2026
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Pros

I had a job and could read my books/draw during down time.

Cons

Horrible management. Incredibly aloof staff that does not take POC employees seriously. Also, multitude of microaggressions and straight up racism, Plain attempts of treating their staff without compassion and also putting their staff and students in harm's way during FSU's 2025 school shooting. Staff was told to keep working during an active shooting and even after people had been pronounced dead. This is not simply a testing center issue but a systematic concern of FSU's departments. Pay is also mediocre and only went up recently because of consistent complaints from the employees--not because they wanted to. Plenty of inappropriate behaviors were present while I was working there from upper management. Fawning, favoritism, power trips, blurring boundaries, etc. Parking is awful.

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