Penn State reviews

Salary, position and promotion are very unsatisfactory. Like everywhere, the PIs try to exploit to the maximum extent, no ethics. Mostly people coming from abroad lack this commercial outlook and also due to their visa restrictions, get exploited. Most of the PIs themselves are mediocre level of researchers struggling for their own survival and beneftis, so will think about the benefit of students or employees only if benefiting the employees benefits themselves. Health insurance costs much more compared with universities in other states. Salaries of Postdocs /RAs are very less in comparison to other places.

"Corporate" politics rule, nothing can really get done with out going through ~15 committees approval and anything new takes forever to get done. By the time it gets through all that it's out dated and the generally know to be the wrong way to do things, but they use it anyways.