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Meaningful work. Practical classes. Coaching not just lecturing.
Faculty (Current Employee) - Burnaby, BC - 4 October 2023
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The most useful review selected by IndeedNice working with students on practical skills. Work is meaningful. Able to work independently, but also lots of opportunities to collaborate with other instructors. Education is practical. Opportunities to coach students on simulated and real industry projects. Marking season is busy, but nice summer break to refresh.
Pros
Independent with opportunities to collaborate. Focused on helping students.
Cons
Independence and freedom are slowly being lost.
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Great place to work
Administrator (Current Employee) - Burnaby - 31 March 2023
My team is great, and I really like working here.Challenging work in a good way, lots of autonomy, and also support from my leaders.I like the hybrid model of some days in the office and some days at home.
Pros
Lots of professional development opportunties, pay is good and benefits are great.
Cons
Things are slow to move forward
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- Time and location flexibility
- Inclusive work environment
- Feeling of personal appreciation
Amazing place with many growth opportunities
Student Life Ambassador (Former Employee) - Burnaby - 14 February 2023
Fun place. Able to ask questions and receive helpful feedback. Collaborative co-workers and many opportunities for growth. Getting to see students and connect with them.
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Great place to work!
GENERAL MOTORS PRODUCT SERVICE TRAINER (Former Employee) - Langley, BC - 8 December 2022
Good work environment. Low stress. Good people. Good work life balance. BCIT is a very supportive environment. Friendly helpfully staff. The tech support is second to none.
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Great place for Online continuing education
Bachelor of Health Sciences (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) (Former Employee) - Burnaby, BC - 21 October 2022
Very flexible learning style, great for those trying to maintain a career and add additional education to their resume. Would recommend BCIT for other allied health continuing education programs.
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Work life balance
Marketing Specialist (Current Employee) - Burnaby, BC - 28 July 2022
Comfortable place to work depending on our department. Great benefitsFlexible work arrangements for some departmentsPD funds A lot of red tape when working on large Institute projects.
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High turnover rate and not fair to contract employees
Program Coordinator (Former Employee) - Burnaby, BC - 1 June 2022
All difficult tasks would assign to contract employees, only permanent employees can enjoy work life balance. Contract employees are not allowed to work from home, but permanent employees only.
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Great place to work with good benefits
General Labourer (Current Employee) - Burnaby, BC - 5 January 2022
Benefits are great here. You can get a hold of the benefits package online through their website before you even start to get an idea of what is offered.
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Fun place but challenging
Millwright Department (Former Employee) - Burnaby, BC - 27 February 2021
BCIT is a great place to work. Lots of opportunities to grow academically and socially. Work can be challenging but in the end it is always rewarding.
Pros
Lots of upgrades
Cons
Parking
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Productive and friendly
Assistant Instructor (Current Employee) - Burnaby, BC - 4 November 2020
You need to do your work perfectly and work hard, but the culture is friendly with top management very helpful. Co-workers are friendly and available to help.
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School of Health Sciences
Instructor (Current Employee) - Burnaby, BC - 19 June 2020
People quit their manager, not their job and nowhere is this more the case than the BCIT School of Health, Manager; Diagnostics. This manager rewards, promotes and supports those with a poor work ethic and lack teaching credentials, those who complain and are the source of creating a toxic work environment. This manager casts aside, undermines and disposes of instructors who work hard and are loyal to the organization with documented positive student feedback.
I have personally witnessed colleagues crying in meetings with this manager present, verbal abuse and harassment both in-person and online. All this behaviour goes on under the watchful eye of the Dean of the School of Health and senior leadership who do absolutely nothing to address the issues. The School of Health Sciences is the most toxic work environment I have ever been a part of.
On an organizational level, BCIT is incredibly resistant to change and more often, change is obstructed. Idea sharing is discouraged. The BCIT learning environment has not changed in decades.
How this toxic culture continues in this time of change and awareness of workplace bullying and harassment boggles my mind.
Pros
Students
Cons
Soul crushing, toxic environment
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Official response from British Columbia Institute of Technology
28 August 2020Thank you for taking the time to provide your feedback. At BCIT, we value our people and are always striving to improve our employee experience. We welcome further feedback to identify possible solutions to address the concerns you may have. Please feel free to email us at recruitmentassistant@bcit.ca if you would like to provide additional feedback.
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Recreation Services Assistant (Current Employee) - Burnaby, BC - 26 February 2020
Slow paced environment. Flexibility and vacation perks are great. Not much work to do. No possibility for advancement. Team is great but management does not take into fact that the decisions they make are what is best for the department and how they affect the staff that deal with front line situations.
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Reputable Organization
Energy Specialist (Former Employee) - Burnaby, BC - 10 January 2020
Great organization to work for. Good for resume building.
It is a large organization so it was often difficult to get projects done within a reasonable time as their systems are beaurocratic and inefficient.
Cons
Beuraucratic
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Poor/toxic work culture
Faculty Member (Current Employee) - Burnaby, BC - 13 December 2019
High turnover at the management/leadership level, many people fired during my time here. BCIT has an aging workforce that obstructs change, they are not open at all to new ideas. If you are young and have new ideas to share, this is not the workplace for you.
Pros
Education/professional development fund
Cons
No time to use fund for professional development, not open to any type of change or idea sharing
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Official response from British Columbia Institute of Technology
28 August 2020Thank you for taking the time to provide your feedback. At BCIT, we value our people and are always striving to improve our employee experience. We welcome further feedback to identify possible solutions to address the concerns you may have. Please feel free to email us at recruitmentassistant@bcit.ca if you would like to provide additional feedback.
Great environment for driven people
Store supervisor - Specialty retail store (Former Employee) - Burnaby, BC - 4 November 2019
BCIT offers competitive opportunities and many benefits. I took advantage of the education included, the classes were a benefit to all employees that maintained good attendance.
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Good place to work
Canada - Senior Software Developer (Current Employee) - Burnaby, BC - 17 April 2019
Excellent business environment to work.
The co-workers are helpful and have a good career development for employees.
However, the salary is below the other companies.
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Good Place to work but..
Operations Manager (Current Employee) - Vancouver, BC - 22 February 2019
Overall a good place to work if your priorities are a consistent, low stress, low innovation work day.
However, if you are looking to constantly innovate and take initiative and learn, it might not be the place for you.
Overachievers might get bored too soon.
Pros
work life balance, good colleagues, collegial
Cons
lack of strategic direction, too much old blood and old ways of thinking
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Excellent work environment
Railroad Rules Instructor (Former Employee) - Vancouver, BC - 9 February 2019
Was an exciting and challenging place to work at, no dull moment. Excellent Managers. From my point of view, I really enjoyed training new students for a career on the Railway making good money and enjoying all benefits a Company and Unions can afford to give.
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Flexible schedules
Server/Cashier (Former Employee) - Burnaby, BC - 14 January 2019
BCIT offers a lot of part-time programs. Students can take classes in the evening, weekends. This helps a lot for people who work during day time. I hope BCIT could offer more program choices and focuses on improving students employment rate.
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Terrible work culture and coworkers
Staff tech (Former Employee) - BC - 29 April 2018
If you enjoy coworkers smiling in front of you and then behind your back talking smack about you, join BCIT. I worked in an area that is supposed to be dictated by your own work pace but that was quickly thrown out the window. Be careful of the your coworkers here, salary is okay and work is easy enough. Would have made a wonderful permanent job if it wasn’t for the work culture here represented by the awful culture and disrespect.
Pros
Easy work, salary is ok
Cons
Work culture, coworkers disrespecting you
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good environment
STUDENT LIFE AMBASSADOR (Former Employee) - Burnaby, BC - 17 July 2017
great people to work with
very good direction from supervisor
funny place to work
flexibility in shifts
provide a balance between personal, professional and academic life
Pros
flexiblity
Cons
low wage
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