Impossible to get a promotion - Senior Statistician UCLA Employee Review

3.0
Apr 13, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Access to good health insurance with healthcare on campus. Great 4013(b) matching (I believe it was 7% or 8%)

Cons

It was unclear how to get a promotion. It seemed like everyone who was there had been there forever and were very content in their jobs. Lots of expectations but no rewards for meeting expectations. No annual performance reviews because I was not designated as a "career" employee.

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Cons

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2.0
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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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