Working at San Jose State University in San Jose, CA: 91 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in San Jose, CA Area

"The work culture is really good for students. The compensation provided is really beneficial to the students."

"I worked as an GSA for San Jose State University. My supervisor is extremely helpful. I will definitely recommend students to work for the team of SJSU."

"I've worked as RA under a Professor. Professor have wide understanding of existing problems and what industries are focusing on. If we have good skillset, it is always advisable to go for RA, but it will not be an easy job managing both academic, person prep and doing RA."

"Way to much politics and not enough getting the job done to the point of toxicity."

"The educational environment is a tricky workspace with significant political and funding challenges. I feel this is particularly true at the leadership level for SJSU. The actual work is most interesting, and it can be very satisfying."

"I have worked at campus as a student assistant where I got exposure to working with webpage designing. I am an Electrical Engineer and this being a new thing I researched each and every bit to fulfill managers' requirements. My supervisor was really supportive and helped us in case we faced any issues. I had a great bonding with my co-workers as well."

"Even though it is an on-campus job the ability to learn new things is vast to the field of electrical engineering and working with the students improves our social skills and enhances our knowledge on the subject by clarifying their doubts."

"I've worked for the mechatronics laboratory in San Jose State University Engineering Department. I've learned a lot throughout the process and my supervisors were extremely helpful and friendly."

"Working as an Undergraduate research assistant has given me hands-on laboratory skills that would have otherwise been unattainable through a classroom setting."

"Dear Hiring Manager, I am writing this letter to apply for the Project Engineer position at Jobot which was advertised on the company careers page. I am a student in the Master of Engineering Management program at San José State University and I will be graduating in Dec 2020. I believe that my 3+ years of work experience and demonstrated expertise in Manufacturing Engineering using end to end planning, direction and co-ordination of all processes makes me a strong candidate for the open position. During my full-time career as a manufacturing engineer in HVAC refrigeration company, I appointed different tools of the robot system for machining processes with different G-codes and M-codes and developed communication protocol between them. The whole process takes place right from loading of material, pressing, grooving, notching and cutting of sheet metal. Afterwards the sheet metal is mounted on the chemical pressure controlling machine and chemical is directly triggered in between the two sheet metal and this whole process is generated by using six sigma techniques like VSM (Value Stream Mapping). I prepared BOM (Bill Of Material) for the entire project. During this process I have forecasted the sales of every year by using exponential smoothning, simple and weighted moving average as well as Holt-winters method. As a Student Assistant at SJSU Psychology Department, I am working on automation of university faculty database by using Visual Basic Application (VBA) and Python. I also work on graphics for departmental website by using CorelDRAW, SquareSpace and Adobe Photoshop. I volunteered different events and commencement including departmental and university. Academically, I have worked on continuous process improvement by using six sigma techniques like Kaizen, 5S, FMEA (Failure mode and effect analysis), VSM (Value Stream Mapping) to reduce service time in a restaurant and eliminated non-value-added inventory which increases profitability of restaurant. I use"

"Good position, but it may cost a lot of time to deal with useless stuff."

"working as an Research Assistant in San Jose State University is my best experience that enhanced my skills in cutting edge technology of Deep learning on Intel FPGA development boards. my supervisor provided me with all the resources for learning and growing my skills."

"My university was a great place for students to not only work towards completing their education but to work in environments where they could find their dream careers. One of my previous jobs as a project coordinator made me realize I wanted to get into recruiting. I spent over 3 months interviewing students and their willingness to share their personal experiences opened up doors for me to discover this field."

"The application process is super easy and convenient while still keeping candidates interests in mind."

"I've worked with San Jose State University for about 2 semesters now. As my role as a Technical Assistant for an Intro to Engineering class, I have increased my technical skills as well as verbal and communication skills. I have provided demonstrations to the class on how to use SolidWorks and assist the professor in ensuring the lab materials are prepared."