University of Pittsburgh Employer Reviews

I liked working in the academic working environment. I made many great working relationships

Wonderful curriculum; excellent faculty members, great students. Best place to work and get an education.

The training environment and research funding are excellent, and provide a good overall training setting for postdoctoral researchers. However, in this position there are no real benefits for postdoctoral researchers--i.e. no matching of retirement contributions and specifically for Scholars health insurance contribution by the University is considered – more... taxable income. In my experience there is little concern for career advancement past the postdoctoral training period. – less

I clean top to bottom, dusting, bathrooms, class, floors, everything. I learned to listen to your boss. My co-workers were ok everyone got along. The hastest part was tryn to stay busy but i enjoy listen to my tunes and just working.

I worked in State Mental Health hospital as an intern for a year. I learned about many different mental health diagnosis and treatments. I was able to work with a variety of different diagnosis and learned a great deal.

Easy to talk to people anywhere you go. Facilities are well maintained and security is always nearby should anything happen.

worked with the chairman of the department, executive administrators, faculty and students who worked iin labs. Met an amazing amount of professionals who taught ame a lot about the relative benefits of research and how it can help for future cures, analysis and possible advances in medicine especially in genetics and microbiology.

Pitt is a very varied place to work. In my department, office politics come into play and certain employees are favored over others but generally the director is fair. As a researcher, the pay is far below industry standards but the benefits are excellent- most departments are closed between Christmas and New Year's so the free winter break is nice- – more... no need to use your PTO. It's a great place to get experience but job advancement opportunities are slim in this area so for many it's best to work for a few years and just move on. Most supervisors are pretty flexible with work-life balance as long as you don't take advantage of it. – less

Used Matlab to merge the fields of Biology and Computer Science

Learned how to effectively use Matlab

Management was highly organized

Co-workers were helpful

Hardest part of the job: Getting adequate results in 10 weeks

Most enjoyable: Living and working in Pittsburgh

The University has a number of job postings and different areas to work in

Variety of projects, able to use expertise of University procedures and job knowledge, including assistance in completing grant financial forms, entry of department information in database system, revision of student handbook

Focused workplace.
Results driven.
Enjoyable experience.

Given enough guidance and research space, it was an environment to accomplish without stress.

Pro: nice people. The academic environment is great. The professors, staff, and students are nice to work with. Most people are friendly and helpful. Benefits and days off are good. The only negative is very low pay compared to corporate world. Most staff work to get degree or send kids to college for degree and then plan to leave. Besides low pay, – more... only other negative is that the technology does not keep up with the corporate world, so if you go back to corporate -- you're likely behind in technology. I would recommend working at Pitt if you already have a second income. For single income's trying to make ends meet, it will be a challenge. – less

Enjoy the content but not enough quantitative work to make me happy. Lots of document editing for consistency and grammatical errors.

Play a different variety of music all day long. Take requests from students and faculty, have a few special guests. Management was great. Co workers were fun. Hardest part of the job was finding enough time to play all the music requested. Most enjoyable part of the job playing music all day long

This is a state university. The Physics and Astronomy department has lots of new young and energetic proffessor.

Learned technical skills like Java, JavaScript, HTML5 and Web Service from classes and learned some E-Business knowledge

Pretty much like any university. However you get UPMC insurance, which is AMAZING.

I have been grateful for the opportunity to work at such a prestigeous institution like the University of Pittsburgh.