Pleasant, low-pressure work environment - Anonymous employee UCLA Employee Review

4.0
17 Feb 2010
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The employees and most of the managers are laid back and understanding. Work schedules are flexible and they permit 4-day workweeks and telecommuting.

Cons

With recent university budget cuts, most employees have mandatory furlough days. If you like a 3-day weekend once in a while, it isn't so bad but sometimes you just don't want to lose a day's pay. Also, there is a lot of bureaucracy mandated by the state.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
5 May 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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