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      4.1

      77% would recommend to a friend

      (5,744 total reviews)
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      Gene D. Block

      70% approve of CEO

      59% positive business outlook

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      4.2

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.0

      Work/Life balance

      3.9

      Culture & values

      3.8

      Career opportunities

      3.7

      Compensation and benefits

      3.6

      Senior management

      UCLA has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 5,744 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The UCLA employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Educación industry (3.7 stars).

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      3.0
      Jul 28, 2014

      The actual job is great but the pay sucks!

      Research coordinator
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      Pros

      Smart people, great job, great benefits, very stable. Truly enjoyed my 4 years here. Very intresting and dynamic environment.

      Cons

      Pay check to pay check with heavy UC imposed restrictions on pay that make it impossible to move up. I waited a year for a promotion and then was told due to new UC restrictions that I would not recieve any extra pay from the title change.

      4.0
      Jul 14, 2014

      Excellent place to work, amazing colleagues

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Awesome benefits, full medical, dental, vision. Generous benefits package and retirement plan. Great work life balance

      Cons

      Bureaucracy is difficult to navigate, working for a large entity like the UC can be challenging as there are many policies in place that are nonsensical. Salaries are likely lower due to the fact that we are california state employees

      3.0
      Jul 12, 2014

      Interesting Faculty and students. Unbreakable pay cap

      Student affairs officer ii
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      Pros

      The faculty and students can be grateful for advice and, as an academic counselor, you can feel part of the team effort to educate. The retirement benefits are also good, though, as anywhere, the excellence of the medical benefits depends on what you suffer from. The campus is pretty, and, if you like L.A., the genteel parts of it are near you. i would recommend it for someone who believes in education, can stand to see education be a lower priority than it ought to be at an educational institution, and can afford to make less than the market rate for similar skills. Also, if you are aggressive about doing limited work, it may offer decent work-life balance (I can't tell). Although I saw management discrimination for people with LGBQ orientations, it is overall an LGBTQ-friendly campus.

      Cons

      The salary caps are aggressive, regardless of merit (and I'm not just talking about mine or a few of my friends' salaries). I am in the school of Letters & Science. It may be different in, say, the medical school, but is still problematic. People have to leave a position in order to go to a higher salary because there are no raises. Therefore someone is new on the job every one to three years, resulting in lower productivity and higher frustration. Some of the professors have a lot of power over staff but are very immature. The students can be quite spoiled.

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