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4.0
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(based on 116 University of Washington Review Ratings)

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Company Culture
4.1
Growth Opportunities
3.6
People You Work With
4.3
Person You Work For
4.4
Rewards You Receive
3.8
Support You Get
4.0
Way You Work
4.2
Work Setting
4.0
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"The University of Washington drives new ideas and innovations that educate and make the world a better place. I love to create and deliver courses for The University of Washington. Interacting with students on the real-world projects that they are working on has been great for me as a UW instructor and software engineer."
Posted 11 years ago in Seattle, WA
Equipment Services Project Manager

What do you like about working at University of Washington?

"Work culture is good, which changes one's life and outlook."

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

"To be open and not biased with others, there should be merit basis and not selfishness."

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

"Silent, self centered and new people cannot adjust, as there is no training."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"interaction with all is not there, all are in their own world."

Person You Work For 2 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 2 / 5
Support You Get 2 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 2 / 5
Computing Specialist
Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Facilities Planning Coordinator

What do you like about working at University of Washington?

"The beautiful campus, sense of community, the health benefits, good pay and job security. I enjoy educated people who are broad thinkers. The Information School is forward thinking and open and fun!"

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

"Know as much as you can about the department. Learn about the culture. Know someone! Find out about the politics."

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

"No pay raises for 5 years. Very political and hard to move into different positions. No flexibility."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would delegate more authority and decision making ability. Trust my subordinates more."

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

What do you like about working at University of Washington?

"The faculty position offers excellent collaborative opportunities a high level of independance and good support from mentors."

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

"Public sector jobs are not competative in compenstation with the private sector but several perks make up for some of the discrepancy. Rewards need to come from the outcomes of your work (teaching, research, patient care, etc.) here beyond financial compensation alone."

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

"Budgetary constratings working in the public sector limit opportuinities for progress and create unnessisary stress for technical and administrative workers."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"This is difficult to know. The current funding climate restricts the options open to leadership."

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

What do you like about working at University of Washington?

"It's in higher education and serves a purpose. Plus, educating students is awesome and being around smart people is great."

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

"Get hired, take some free classes and get your Master's in ANYTHING - it's definitely skewing toward the more highly educated."

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

"Between the bureaucracy and inability to make timely decisions is a no-wo/man's land of mismanagement and myopia. It's not that things are bad, per se, it's just no one can recognize it could be so much better."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Focus more on innovation, keeping education affordable for in-state students, centralize some of the decision-making process so it's smoother and less bureaucratic."

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

What do you like about working at University of Washington?

"Regular hours. Contribute to the education and research mission. Good Pay."

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

"If you are interested in taking classes, any class that gets state money is free to you."

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

"Lack of innovation. Hard to get tools to work with. Coworkers who didn't use the tools we did have. No movement to other teams."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"More collaboration. Let everyone know what everyone else was doing. Share future plans. Let workers have input into the work they did"

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

"Very few workplace make you feel good while working and this is one of them."

What do you like about working at University of Washington?

"It was a small company, and the working atmosphere is relaxing."

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

"Be yourself, and tell him why you are interested working there."

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

"Since it is a small company, there isn't much career advancement."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"My boss is great guy. I don't have any suggestion for him."

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

What do you like about working at University of Washington?

"Good experience, challenge, vacation, learning opportunity, trust, working environment."

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

"Hard to enroll in university class, parking is expensive, long commute time."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Calm, insightful, clear mind, respectful and know how to lead."

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
Account Manager

What do you like about working at University of Washington?

"I really like the work environment and the fast pace."

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

"The only tip I would have is to just be yourself and do your job as best as you can."

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

"I don't like the fact that there is no room to grow into a better position and my current job."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I have had a few different ideas that I have brought up to my management and some of them have been put in to place to make the job easier."

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

What do you like about working at University of Washington?

"Fun, interesting work. Great support from management, get to travel sometimes."

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

"Don't come in with a criminal record and try to hide. it."

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

"Longs hours driving, really not much else. I really like it."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I really don't have any suggestions for management. They are great."

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
Research Scientist

"It is a pleasure to work with creative and energetic people."

What do you like about working at University of Washington?

"There is a high level of collaboration among the different groups."

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

"One suggestion for those that will interview here is to be yourself."

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

"Some of the resources are located in other off campus sites."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I do wish that share resources are centralized, which makes it easier for the staff."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
University of Washington Employee
Person You Work For 2 / 5 People You Work With 2 / 5 Work Setting 2 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Company Culture 5 / 5
Way You Work 2 / 5
Development Assistant

"Great hands on experience developing a life saving medical device."

What do you like about working at University of Washington?

"Being able to drive the development process for every component of the device."

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

"The company I am working for is more of a proto-company. Essentially a start up company will be generated around the medical device that we are currently building. With that said, for those interviewing for my current position, I would suggest to be as flexible as possible ant to be willing to learn or familiarize yourself in new areas as needed."

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

"Being a research job through the University of Washington, most of the money that is available is through grants, thus the pay is very bad."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The management is done entirely by our PI. Throughout my experience it's been very efficient, responsive, and positive."

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

"Student only position, the pay was ok, but I took this job for the experience."

What do you like about working at University of Washington?

"It was nice to know my co-worker, who was one of my classmates."

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

"None really, just know your web development fundamentals and skills."

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

"The pay wasn't that great, but then again, it was a student position."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"None really, it was a good job for being a student."

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

What do you like about working at University of Washington?

"Able to do homework during down time. I also it was not a difficult job"

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

"Just listen to what you are told. This job is temporary and you will not be here for long."

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

"The job gets boring once all the tasks are done."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would be around more often during work hours just to check on my employees."

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

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Is University of Washington a good company to work for?

University of Washington has an overall rating of 4.0 Average Rating out of 5, based on over 116 University of Washington Review Ratings left anonymously by University of Washington employees, which is 3% higher than the average rating for all companies on CareerBliss. 94% of employees would recommend working at University of Washington.

Does University of Washington pay their employees well?

University of Washington employees earn $38,000 annually on average, or $18 per hour, which is 42% lower than the national salary average of $66,000 per year. 57 University of Washington employees have shared their salaries on CareerBliss. Find University of Washington Salaries by Job Title.

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94% of employees would recommend working at University of Washington with the overall rating of 4.0 out of 5. Employees also rated University of Washington 4.1 out of 5 for Company Culture, 3.8 for Rewards You Receive, 3.6 for Growth Opportunities and 4.0 for support you get.

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