I've had a great experience as a grad student in the math department. - Graduate Student Researcher UCLA Employee Review

5.0
Feb 17, 2014
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Pros

UCLA has some excellent professors in the applied math group and applied students are generally funded enough that they don't have to TA often. The applied group is also very flexible about changing projects and working with multiple professors.

Cons

The math department has cut back on grad student liberties in the last year, forcing students to take down posters in their offices and removing the ping pong table from the graduate lounge thanks to spurious noise complaints.

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Cons

A colleague was laid off today. She was with UCLA for 10+ years. She got a meeting invite with 10 minutes notice. Her Director read out a cold statement that her position was eliminated and handed her over to the HR. Her manager came running to her cubicle and told her she had 2 minutes to pack up and leave. He insisted that he accompanied her to her car. Many other colleagues had similar or worse experiences. All Managers and Directors and above saved their jobs. And they sacrificed many individual contributors.

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