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4.2
Average Rating
(based on 235 University of Texas Review Ratings)

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Company Culture
4.1
Growth Opportunities
3.7
People You Work With
4.4
Person You Work For
4.4
Rewards You Receive
3.9
Support You Get
4.2
Way You Work
4.3
Work Setting
4.2
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"Offers many opportunities for current and former students alike, stable employment and good benefits."
Posted 15 years ago in Arlington, TX
Research Associate

What do you like about working at University of Texas?

"The facilities and support from other members and other teams."

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

"Reveal your ability and potential. Talk with confidence. Be familiar with the subject of your future work."

What don't you like about working at University of Texas?

"The teamwork discussion was not well organized. The team members need more communications."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"It would be better if we have a rating system and a merit promotion."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Desktop Support Technician

"Contract desktop support, some regular employees were mean."

What do you like about working at University of Texas?

"They bought new technology equipment and were not afraid to spend money."

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

"Show up on time and dress professionally, know the skill set for the job."

What don't you like about working at University of Texas?

"some of the administration people I supported were nice but some were mean and disrespectful, they know your only a temporary worker, I had higher level people go out of they way to put me down, most of the regular perm positions went to someone related to a current employee, if your father, wife, brother, etc. already worked there you could get perm job, otherwise forget it."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Treat everyone with the same respect, kindness and professionalism, no matter what position they are in."

Person You Work For 1 / 5 People You Work With 2 / 5 Work Setting 1 / 5
Support You Get 1 / 5 Rewards You Receive 1 / 5 Growth Opportunities 1 / 5
Company Culture 2 / 5 Way You Work 2 / 5
Graduate Research Assistant

"Good company to work at."

What do you like about working at University of Texas?

"Working environment is good and easy. As faculty it's a good place to work at."

What don't you like about working at University of Texas?

"I cannot find any specific reason for not working at UTA."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"To improve the rank of the company, the management needs to take drastic steps."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Undergraduate Assistant

"My experience was great."

What do you like about working at University of Texas?

"It was convenient since it was a job for within my university."

What don't you like about working at University of Texas?

"I think the overall experience was fine but there seemed to be a lack of structure."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"To create more structure and micromanage a little more in order to achieve its goals."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Patient Access Specialist

What do you like about working at University of Texas?

"Being number one in the world for cancer treatment and making cancer history."

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

"Be prepared to work hard and have your life changed forever."

What don't you like about working at University of Texas?

"Very demanding, non support from management. Watching patients die from cancer."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Value opinions of my co-workers more. A less stressful work environment."

Person You Work For 2 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 2 / 5
Teaching Assistant

What do you like about working at University of Texas?

"It was in academia. So learning and re-learning was there."

What don't you like about working at University of Texas?

"Nothing in specific. Being a part of academia is rewarding enough."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Instructor

"Good times."

What do you like about working at University of Texas?

"Freedom to work on our own ideas and perform research without strings."

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

"Good place for working, good benefits, and an macadamia environment for growth."

What don't you like about working at University of Texas?

"Promotions are based on which group one is working, not based on performance."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Promotions and tenure should be based on the performance of the employee."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Lab Assistant

What do you like about working at University of Texas?

"Working at the company that means you need do everything quickly and accurate. I love this part. I like to pay 100% attention when I am working."

What don't you like about working at University of Texas?

"I don't know what I don't like working at the company. I am very flexible, I can work anywhere."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I prefer plan first. I list what I will do and time it will take, from these I do the schedule for the all day work and do multiple tasks a time."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Library Paraprofessional

What do you like about working at University of Texas?

"Autonomy, stability, structure, good benefits, some chance for advancement, prestige."

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

"Establish clear guidelines with your interviewer regarding job duties and room for advancement. Don't try to make friends."

What don't you like about working at University of Texas?

"Mechanisms put in place to address personnel complaints are unreliable and insufficient. Institutional tendency to ignore problems at every level. Many individuals bring personal issues into work."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"More clarity and consistency in policies and their implementation. More collaboration. Delegate more diverse duties to allow subordinate growth."

Person You Work For 3 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 2 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 1 / 5 Way You Work 3 / 5
Research Scientist

What do you like about working at University of Texas?

"Doing cutting-edge immunological research to improve medicines and treatment for diseases."

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

"Make sure to find a laboratory that has significant funding and a group of people who knows what they're doing and are enthusiastic about it."

What don't you like about working at University of Texas?

"Salaries are not as high as I would expect for someone with my credentials and experience, and the opportunity to get significant raises in salary is not there."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Improve the human resources and ordering departments to streamline our work in the laboratory."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 1 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 3 / 5
Business Manager

What do you like about working at University of Texas?

"Coworkers, history, students, challenge, location, salary, holidays, accrued leave, attire."

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

"Be prepared to hear, that's how we've always done things."

What don't you like about working at University of Texas?

"Parking, micromanagement, resistant to change, obstacles, too many employees just waiting for retirement."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Innovate, remove micromanagers, equalize faculty and staff, remove ambiguity, reduce complexity."

Person You Work For 1 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 2 / 5
Support You Get 2 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 1 / 5
Company Culture 2 / 5 Way You Work 1 / 5
Administrative Manager

What do you like about working at University of Texas?

"The academic environment, some of my co-workers, and its size."

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

"Success at UT depends on who you know, so build your network and use it."

What don't you like about working at University of Texas?

"Too territorial, too big, people not helpful, each unit does its own thing, not enough collaboration."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"More communication, more transparency, more awareness of high stress times, more decision making."

Person You Work For 2 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 2 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 2 / 5 Way You Work 3 / 5
Senior Graphic Designer

What do you like about working at University of Texas?

"My boss allows me freedom to explore new technology and has a progressive attitude towards projects. He is the person asking why not."

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

"Understand things move slower in government organizations and learn how to get your work done by understanding others' work."

What don't you like about working at University of Texas?

"The silo-ed environment is tough when working with other departments. Also, there are few people who will take responsibility to make decisions, many are afraid of being wrong."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would try to understand how my employees spend their time/resources and how they think we should be spending our time/resources. We seem to be doing lots but without a great amount of understanding from above."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Student Technician

What do you like about working at University of Texas?

"It's pretty easy and pays well enough, and it's quite flexible in terms of scheduling."

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

"Stay alive! Turn around, don't drown. (Get out while you can.)"

What don't you like about working at University of Texas?

"I'm not stimulated and hardly do any actual work because of the absurd deadlines."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I'd be more involved in my team's work and generally more communicative."

Person You Work For 2 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 1 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 2 / 5 Way You Work 2 / 5
Graduate Teaching Assistant

"A lot of programming experience has been learnt."

What do you like about working at University of Texas?

"Make my own contribution and face more latest applications and technologies."

What don't you like about working at University of Texas?

"I may work on Saturdays and Sundays. Also the vocation may be short."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"You have to think for the employees not just use them."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5

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Is University of Texas a good company to work for?

University of Texas has an overall rating of 4.2 Average Rating out of 5, based on over 235 University of Texas Review Ratings left anonymously by University of Texas employees, which is 8% higher than the average rating for all companies on CareerBliss. 96% of employees would recommend working at University of Texas.

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University of Texas employees earn $35,000 annually on average, or $17 per hour, which is 47% lower than the national salary average of $66,000 per year. 133 University of Texas employees have shared their salaries on CareerBliss. Find University of Texas Salaries by Job Title.

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96% of employees would recommend working at University of Texas with the overall rating of 4.2 out of 5. Employees also rated University of Texas 4.1 out of 5 for Company Culture, 3.9 for Rewards You Receive, 3.7 for Growth Opportunities and 4.2 for support you get.

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According to our data, the lowest paying job at University of Texas is a Statistical Research Assistant at $2,000 annually. Browse University of Texas Salaries by Job Profile.

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