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Football, football, football - Anonymous employee Florida State University Employee Review

2.0
8 Dec 2014
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Very flexible schedules, generous allotment of time off, excellent choices for healthcare coverage, working on campus is excellent as many services are in walking distance and the hustle and bustle of the students keeps the energy level very high.

Cons

First off it is very dangerous. Forbes magazine has rated Tallahassee as the 8th most dangerous city in the country. I worked at FSU for a year and a half and there were two shootings within two blocks of my office. Very low salaries and no opportunity for annual raises or bonuses. The managers have little to no training in HR, EEO, HIPPA laws, etc. so some of the behavior is appalling. The focus is on the football team beyond anything else so you have to become accustomed to bad press about the ethics of the organization. You have to pay for parking.

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5.0
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Pros

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

Cons

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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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