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Great place to get experience if you're seeking further education - Laboratory Specialist Virginia Commonwealth University Employee Review

4.0
May 16, 2012
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Pros

Everyone is easy-going but is also responsible for their part. Since there are a lot of small labs, lab techs can learn a lot. State employee benefits.

Cons

Low pay. You can hardly make it on your own if you work as a lab tech. My salary is unusually high for a lab tech. Unless you're just getting experience to seek further education here, it's not a place to work for. I'm sure the pay is okay for other positions.

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Cons

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Pros

They care about the employees. There are multiple efforts to support everyone, it is a welcoming environment, HR is very supportive.

Cons

VCU is incredibly bureaucratic and poorly ran. Things move slow, very slow. More slow than normal universities should. It isn't just "oh this is academia, things move slow." It's legitimate poor management across multiple levels of leadership.

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