Pros
Friendly colleagues, good benefits, love the thriving campus environment - students are fantastic to be around.
Cons
Leadership does not practice what they preach. There is no transparency in decision-making and each division still works in a silo. My biggest frustration is with Human Resources. UC Merced has the most incompetent human resources staff I’ve ever met who sits on requests for weeks and oftentimes months. It took almost a full year for them to complete a classification review for an employee. Discipline letters takes months to approve even though they use the same template letters. The Managers do not respond to calls. There is zero accountability from the new HR Directors either. Powell left that department in a mess! The only HR staff who was knowledgeable, competent, and delivered on her promises resigned last summer to pursue other opportunities. They should have done more to retain her because HR is a bigger mess now with the dissolution of the business partner mode. It is unfortunate that they are losing their best employees due to their inability to recognize true talent and engage, develop, and retain those talents.
