UC Davis reviews

4.3

87% would recommend to a friend

(3,855 total reviews)
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Linda Katehi

76% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

UC Davis has an employee rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 3,855 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The UC Davis 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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1.0
Apr 5, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits as pertaining to vacation, sick leave-pension has been good but they are making changes to reduce that.

Cons

Unqualified managers and supervisors in many departments. Childish game playing on many levels. The level of favoritism and nepotism is appalling. Very unprofessional environment. Also the University is in mass layoff mode, but the bulk of those being targeted for layoffs are those not in a special clique with these unqualified manager/supervisors. Lots of dirty tricks going on to make safe jobs of "pets", including promoting them to a higher grade to protect lower grade sections being laid off-even though they do no more work or are not even qualified. They are giving them raises and promotions while laying off other competent individuals who aren't in the " in crowd", kind of sickening to watch.

2.0
Feb 19, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

The Benefits, working with people who ARE committed to making the University a better place, helping facilitate the funds coming to the Regents that support the world class research happening at our institution.

Cons

In the Office of Research, leadership is lacking and unfocused. Management does NOT support our mission. Staff are treated poorly and those who do not contribute to the overall mission are usually promoted or moved around when their performance is poor instead of being held accountable.

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