The University of California Employer Reviews

Tutoring students how to improve their writing was a difficult but rewarding experience. English was a second language for many of my students and so there was a language barrier that needed to be overcome, on both sides. I found it frustrating that these students were very smart, passed high school and got into UCSC without knowing how to construct – more... a grammatically correct sentence or passable academic english paper. I improved as a teacher as much as they improved at writing papers. It was extremely rewarding to hear from a student that my tutoring helped them pass classes and the Entry Level Writing and Reading exam. – less

The best part of this job was the constant interaction you had with a diverse pool of people. This was a fairly easy job and you learn how to manage your time pretty well. I didn't have a very good manager. But he wasn't a bad manager by any means.

Working as a float Administrative / Office Assistant for the University was always a great experience. Each department did their own thing.

Hardest part was floating to other departments because each department had their own procedure for providing administrative support.

top-ranked business school that offers a variety of business education programs and community activities.

Would love to return for last phase of my career. was outstanding start. Opportunity laden.

Worked with international researchers in Cancer and Aids research...monitoring the grants for their research projects.

Working time is quite flexible, but considering the amount of project we work on, we always spend more than 8 hours a day in the lab or office. However, the work is always very exciting and the time at work flies!!
Working here I grow a lot and I learned lot of new technical and management skills. coworkers are usually very friendly and we help each – more... other in order to reach our project goals.
Managing the time in order to work on several projects in parallel is sometimes very challenging, but the results that we got at the end are most of the time the best prize for the hard-work that we do. – less

good place to work as a postdoc. Nice city. Good science.
UC system covers health insurance.

Great managment, fun environments but not much money for students workers, and flexible schedules. Very professional.

Pristine campus with access to theatre, arts and lectures. Salaries are generally below national average but benefits are very good. Flexibility for work/life balance.

A typical work day- respond to student emails regarding academic or personal issues.
Advise students with grad planning, semester planning, major planning, inform students regarding campus resources, course articulation, assist with academic difficulty, graduate school advising and career planning.

Management- is very easy to communicate with. Open-door – more... policy.
Co-workers- Friendly and open communication.
Hardest part of the job- Getting an answer to a question in a timley manner from other departments.
Most enjoyable part of the job- helping students reach their overall goals academically and personally. – less

Provides training and tools needed to perform your job.
Part of the University of California so I was able to continue to stay in the system, maintin my services years and transfer among the organization.

A typical day would include presenting the management team with valuable analytical data from competitors in order to help determine the proper competitive response.

This was a great student job with room for advancement and excellent benefits.

A typical day at work starts with checking my inbox for all the emails accumulated during the night. I work for an international collaboration, so email traffic goes around the clock. After reading and replying to morning emails, I usually attend one or two meetings scheduled during the day. I have to interleave the meetings with my current workload. – more... The meetings are usually there to keep collaborators up-to-date with software developments, to see the work of others and to present the status on ones work. The meetings are a great place to exchange ideas and make sure everybody is on the same page with respect to latest developments. The workload could vary a lot depending of the stage of the analysis and what project was assigned to me. We usually have several steps in the analysis that require software development and that usually need to be implemented, tested and validated.

-- Data reduction step. Skimming the enormous dataset collected by the experiment in a way that would allow us to test different scenarios on a more reasonably size dataset.

-- Design and implement algorithms dedicated to search for particular signatures in the data, so we can distinguish new physics from the known physics.

-- Run our statistical tools to conclude how sensitive to new physics the analysis is. If we didn't find new physics we then have to calculate the limits on the existence of a particular hypothesis tested.

-- Include all the sources of error that the use of our experimental apparatus and experimental techniques has on the measurement.

I sometime find myself skimming, some other times implementing a set of routines that would allow us to measure the impact of a uncertainty has on the measurement. In our regular meetings we present our findings and we get review, criticized and suggestions are given to improve the work done.

Finally, we write everything on an article that we submit to journals and disseminate the current findings to a much broader scientific community.

As service work to the collaboration, I have performed different tasks. I have written validation software that monitors the behavior of certain piece of reconstruction software for every software release. I have also been in charge of Data Acquisition shifts. An important – less

good place to learn & contribute . Had opportunity to learn new technologies and work in an interdisciplinary field. Obtained good guidance to perform.

Good place for grad school. You are required to work hard and long hours. Management varies depending on your boss.

Every day was different when working in the lab as we had a specific set of projects that would need to be accomplished each day be it cloning the genes, running a PCR, using a gel electrophoresis to separate proteins, or sequence genes. From this position I learned a lot about how a laboratory runs and operates and how to use a variety of techniques – more... that I have never tried before. My supervisor was actually on of my previous professor's, so this position allowed for us to expand on our relationship as well as that with my fellow associate. The most difficult part of this job was when we would run into a wall with the research as certain aspects wouldn't work out and we would have to employ the use of other methods. – less

I worked as an intern for the EWIC project for 4 months and it was a great learning experience. This position was where my love and interest in research methods really began and was tested.

There are a number of Child Care Centers on Campus. The quality varies from center to center. The hardest part of the job is that many teachers are not supportive of each other and there are many rules set by HR instead of EC Educators. The most enjoyable part of the job is working with families and children from all over the world.