Purdue University reviews

So many things. Pay, for starters. Upper administration is completely blind to what's actually happening on campus. Management is incompetent across the board. Promotions are not for the competent or high-ability. They're reserved for the smooth talkers that ride on the coattails of other peoples' work. Changes take forever to get implemented because they have to be scrutinized at multiple levels before they're approved. Even the most fundamental changes that can happen in the "real world" in a matter of days take months or years to implement. No exaggeration. I could go on and on.

Prepared to be UNDER paid compared to the industry. Purdue does not and will not attempt to compete with the industry as a whole. If you're looking for $ this isn't the place for you. It will only disappoint you. There is clear intentionality to 'keep you down' here. Purdue will purposefully do things to make you less marketable, so it's harder for you to move on, such as pay for industry certifications. Working here is like being in an abusive relationship. The longer you stay the more entrenched you get and the harder it is to leave it behind. I can't help but feel that is by design. Constantly understaffed. Constant backfilling that never comes through, because they cannot get their hands on qualified talent (because they refuse to pay for qualified talent). Their solution to this is hiring students fresh out of college and egregiously underpaying them until they move on; then rinse, repeat. The most repeated tag line in this department is "it is what it is". Because you have no control over anything and are forced to live with it. All you can do is cope. That's what most of the people working here are doing- coping. Coping with an abusive workplace that never seems to get better.