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Challenging and satisfying student job - Student IT Assistant Michigan State University Employee Review

5.0
Oct 13, 2012
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Pros

Decent salary, friendly coworkers, good location on campus by the bus station, nice working culture, feel like contributing to great project. Chance for raises. Weekly meetings help the programming group stay organized, and are usually well attended. Development is done with CakePHP with an Oracle database back end. Small group of programmers working on projects.

Cons

Gets lonely working alone in cubicle when other student employee is not there. Software development system can be frustrating to learn at first. The campus it is on (MSU) can get crowded at times, and as a student it is challenging to budget my time as a computer science student and part time employee.

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Cons

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Pros

The HPC facilities (HPCC, ICER) offer excellent access for research affiliates colpaborating with university researchers, with Slurm job scheduling and a well-managed site-specific wiki.

Cons

Annual account renewal can be a bit bureacratically clunky at times, and the Research Affiliate may have to coordinate with multiple departments and the associated PI if a system update breaks part of a legacy system.

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