Michigan State University Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Living in the extreme past"

What do you like about working at Michigan State University?

"KCMS was the only name part of the Kiplinger empire. The ability to manage authority was given with responsibility. Heaven"

What don't you like about working at Michigan State University?

"Inability to compete in the modern world"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"As a KCMS Board of Director I gave the suggestion to sell and get out of the business. They took it. Firm is GONE"

"Ideal place to learn and diversify yourself."

What do you like about working at Michigan State University?

"I like the resources of the University"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Wear sneakers if your a geek-like god of ... ."

What don't you like about working at Michigan State University?

"Benefit packages were... Information Technology decisions made by academics without experience using commercial tools."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Need a more sharply defined break between academia and support infrastructures."

"MSU - A pretty good place to work that needs some serious improvement."

What do you like about working at Michigan State University?

"Interesting work. Fairly pleasant working environment."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"You better have a thick enough skin to deal with the bureaucracy and inefficiency. MSU sells itself as progressive but in the end, it isn't."

What don't you like about working at Michigan State University?

"Bad management. Horrendous bureaucracy. State cutbacks and poor allocation of funding. UNIONS."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Run your administrative and support operations more like a business. Profit has NOTHING to do with it. It's all about efficiency - getting the optimal performance for the dollars spent. That will enable you to better meet your mission of teaching and research."

"Bad management."

"Too much infrastructure, too much administration, too little money."

What do you like about working at Michigan State University?

"Some of the profs"

What don't you like about working at Michigan State University?

"It was a cold place with some VERY arrogant faculty"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Take more than a perfunctory look at the programs you are cutting. Why did you cut the vet tech program What an incredibly stupid move! You placed so many people from it,you were beginning to place the techs in Pfizer Labs!"

"I was Ph.D. student."

What do you like about working at Michigan State University?

"Benefits, hometown college, I'm an alumni"

What don't you like about working at Michigan State University?

"Career advancement path is slow; pay is sub-par"

"It's a good company."

What don't you like about working at Michigan State University?

"Generally speaking, I like this place, but I have to graduate."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Not really."

"Decent, but no offer for advancement."

What do you like about working at Michigan State University?

"The schedule."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be honest."

What don't you like about working at Michigan State University?

"Lack of management interaction."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"To be more approachable."

"As an international student, working at MSU as a research assistant was a great experience"

What do you like about working at Michigan State University?

"I freedom to work on the projects and the full support from the professor under whom I was working."