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4.2
Average Rating
(based on 214 University of Southern California Review Ratings)

Ratings by Category

Company Culture
4.2
Growth Opportunities
3.7
People You Work With
4.5
Person You Work For
4.4
Rewards You Receive
3.8
Support You Get
4.2
Way You Work
4.4
Work Setting
4.3
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"I am a Student Developer here and for a student developer my job is one of the best."
Posted 14 years ago in Los Angeles, CA
Research Assistant

"Self responsible for dealing with longitudinal analysis."

What do you like about working at University of Southern California?

"Self responsible with my analysis and I have a great mentor."

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

"Not only have confidence but also be very willing to learn."

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

"Very few of team work with my project at USC."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"My mentor is very busy. It is hard to handle too many students."

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
Research Assistant

"Very busy, competitive."

What do you like about working at University of Southern California?

"Flexibility. Most of the time you don't have to follow the exact hours."

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

"Be confident, be strong. Be efficient when you are working."

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

"Busy when you are busy. Have so many things to do in one day, sometimes."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Be organized, try to manage your time accordingly. Spend some of your weekend time."

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

"Nice place to work and learn."

What do you like about working at University of Southern California?

"I love what I'm doing, which is making an iPhone game with my idea."

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

"Since it is a research company. You only have to show your capability."

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

"I don't get my own office but a big lab."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Provide worker the clue or instruction and let them decide how to realize that."

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 4 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Graduate Assistant

What do you like about working at University of Southern California?

"Knowledgeable and caring adviser, multicultural, nice and helpful co-workers, good support."

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

What do you like about working at University of Southern California?

"The dynamic nature of the day to day work. The constant change, the students and the intellectual nature of our programs."

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

"The school is really important, as the schools tend to be their own entities within the university - very silo'd. So - check out your team - will they support change? Will they be great to work with? Moving around can be difficult - depending on the school."

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

"While my supervisor is fantastic, the system works against the team and we constantly have to work around things to get anything done. Everything costs an arm and a leg."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Value staff and students more. Give faculty more support staff. Do away with the strict hierarchy of power. More collaboration between departments. Written policies and procedures. Stronger leaders."

Person You Work For 4 / 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 Consultant

"The engagement added high value to USC. That's very fulfilling."

What do you like about working at University of Southern California?

"It's an amazing place (USC) with exceptional people and the work is driving significant changes for the better."

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

"Learn their language and take the time to understand their environment before making decision or conclusions."

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

"The initial project work is winding down and is not likely to resume until 2013."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Use the report generated for initiating the change needed. Continue utilizing the user group created. They are the best users group I have built."

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
Grader

"That was a great gift for my future career."

What do you like about working at University of Southern California?

"The professor is very nice and the teammates give me lots of help."

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

"Maybe they should get an A score before applying for this position."

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

"Because I had graduated, I couldn't work on campus now."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They should really improve the timing system and increase the salary for this course's grader."

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

"ICT is a fun, chill, and interesting place to work!"

What do you like about working at University of Southern California?

"I like the people, culture, environment, and the work place."

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

"It is good to know more about the projects you should work on ahead of time."

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

"Sometimes, there is not enough documentation for a new tool, that I am supposed to use."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"It would be great if any project done, has a clear documentation."

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

What do you like about working at University of Southern California?

"What I love the most was the opportunity to work with people from different cultures. I was able to help Spanish and English speaking patients."

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

"We must tell the truth, our experience and the desire to grow."

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

"Actually I really enjoy everything there. The reason that I left, were personal issues."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The most important thing is to understand how the patient feels. We are human beings and we should be with everybody respectful and kind."

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
Research Assistant

What do you like about working at University of Southern California?

"Good colleagues, relatively good working environment and a wide access to all facilities."

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

"Project is too academic and not very useful. Also, I have to follow instructions I don't quite agree from time to time."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 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
Community Consultant

"Great work helping people in need."

What do you like about working at University of Southern California?

"Accomplished a great deal in the community. Satisfaction in knowing you helped people in need."

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

"Nowhere to go once the projects were complete. The happenstance of consulting work."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Work closely with consultants to see if they can be placed in an appropriate position."

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 4 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Research Programmer

"Awesome experience."

What do you like about working at University of Southern California?

"Very laid back environment, good and smart people, good work content."

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

"This place looks more at your academic background than industrial experience."

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

"Relatively low salary, small place, little growth space, less industrial like."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Giving people more freedom on their own project, encourage new ideas."

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 3 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Research Programmer

What do you like about working at University of Southern California?

"Communicate with people. Teamwork. Brilliant people. Lot of resources. Nice company culture."

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

"Have some research background or interest. Prepare enough programming skills."

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

"Lack of efficient organization. Lack of funding to recruit enough artists to make product looks better."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Focus more on creating a more efficient pipeline and workflow."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Junior SQL Server DBA

What do you like about working at University of Southern California?

"Excellent environment, employees are well taken care of, from office equipment to employees' needs."

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

"Very well structured environment, not like an Internet company, so you must show that you can fit in a well structured environment."

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

"Not very challenging, most of software is provided by vendors."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Provide a more challenging environment, they can build their own software."

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
Staff Member

"I recently graduated from USC and now I am working as technical staff in USC."

What do you like about working at University of Southern California?

"The people are nice and helpful. Also the adviser could provide me very useful advice."

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

"First you should have a strong background about VLSI and C++."

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

"I like the company a lot. But if the position is full time it would be better."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The company could provide some full time positions about this position."

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

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Is University of Southern California a good company to work for?

University of Southern California has an overall rating of 4.2 Average Rating out of 5, based on over 214 University of Southern California Review Ratings left anonymously by University of Southern California employees, which is 8% higher than the average rating for all companies on CareerBliss. 96% of employees would recommend working at University of Southern California.

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University of Southern California 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. 109 University of Southern California employees have shared their salaries on CareerBliss. Find University of Southern California Salaries by Job Title.

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96% of employees would recommend working at University of Southern California with the overall rating of 4.2 out of 5. Employees also rated University of Southern California 4.2 out of 5 for Company Culture, 3.8 for Rewards You Receive, 3.7 for Growth Opportunities and 4.2 for support you get.

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