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      Michigan State University reviews

      4.3

      85% would recommend to a friend

      (3,604 total reviews)
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      Samuel Stanley Jr.

      79% approve of CEO

      65% positive business outlook

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      4.4

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.2

      Work/Life balance

      4.1

      Culture & values

      3.8

      Career opportunities

      3.7

      Senior management

      3.7

      Compensation and benefits

      Michigan State University has an employee rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 3,604 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Michigan State University employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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      4K reviews
      3.0
      Jun 5, 2022

      Good people, fun work, extremely low pay

      Educational leader
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      The experience is great. You learn a lot, plus get access to MSU job postings before non-employees do. You get to educate schoolchildren about scientific topics.

      Cons

      Other than it being a fun job through MSU, it's not that good of a job. Pay is EXTREMELY low. Requires a college degree, but only pays 15-16/hour (for reference, Aldi's in the area starts at $16/hour. I cannot stress enough how low $15-$16/hour is for Novi.) Job averages at about 20-29 hours per week. At $15-$16 per hour, that's $1200-$1856 per month (pre-tax). Average cost of rent in Novi is $1200-$1500/month. A company that won't even pay for its employees to live in the surrounding area is scummy. I don't care how good of a learning opportunity it is; it's scummy and exploitative. MSU can do better. I know they can do better.

      3.0
      Apr 6, 2022

      It's good enough

      Extension educator
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Flexible work life, semi-meaningful work, great colleagues, self-directed, definitely easy to maintain work life balance

      Cons

      Stagnant salary, not a lot of opportunities for growth, poor supervision Talks a big game about making shifts to create more equity focused organization but resistant to organizational/culture shifts needed to get there

      3.0
      Apr 1, 2022

      Some exploitative practices

      Graduate teaching assistant
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      If you're actually able to get the Graduate Teaching Assistant title, the benefits are extremely good for students and I would highly recommend it, especially if you can work with a professor you gel with.

      Cons

      Some departments will employ both graduate and undergraduate students as "Learning Assistants", which have similar duties to Teaching assistant but who get paid less than 20% of the TA counterparts after the consider benefits. It's essentially a grift that they do because they can get away with it. I was even asked to LA for a class I had TAed for in a previous semester. When I refused, they made me a TA immediately. That made it clear to me that they were just trying to take as much advantage of me as possible, and when it became clear that I wasn't going to do the work for so little they capitulated right away because they wanted me to help teach the class.

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