Caltech (California) reviews

No work/life balance No protection from abusive PI Institute protects professors only Institute does not protect the rights of its postdocs, it just lets PIs exploit them

- It takes months to get anything approved - Annual Salary Increase barely meets inflation - let alone higher health contributions and more expensive parking year after year - Plan on making less net pay based on increased annual deductions - Low pay for many jobs because they use the national average rather than California average to determine salary - People work here forever, so they are uncomfortable with any type of change - Old, outdated processes of doing things - In my department severe lack of communication - Managers in my department hired their friends, not the most qualified candidates - My department required many people do tasks outside of their job. If it was addressed with your manager, the response was, "other duties as assigned." - Rarely any growth unless you switch departments