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UC Berkeley Environment Employee Reviews

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Positive
Constructive

What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?

Respect and collaboration at the departmental level.

Claim to be like a family, but is organized chaos.

We are all inclusive. Everyone is treated with respect and dignity

diversity, trust, sincere, attentive, successful

Diversity and feeling of belonging

What needs to change to make the company culture better?

There are indivisible pockets with great culture but the financial challenges have made it harder and harder to find and create good culture

Things do change extremely slow and without authoritative hierarchy. At the same time, depending on the role, you may have a lot of freedom to experiment and get things done on your own.

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Review Sentiment at UC Berkeley

76
76%
24
24%

About UC Berkeley's Environment

D+
63/100

Where This Score Ranks UC Berkeley's Environment

BOTTOM
25%

In the Bottom 25% of 1188 similar size companies on Comparably

BOTTOM
20%

In the Bottom 20% of 738 companies in San Francisco

3rd

3rd place versus 2 competitors rated on Comparably

The environment at UC Berkeley is considered positive by 63% of employees and regarded as having a “bureaucratic” work pace by 11 employees. Relative to its competitors, UC Davis and UCLA, UC Berkeley's environment score ranks in 3rd place. This also puts them in the Bottom 25% of 1188 similar sized companies (10,000+ Employees) on Comparably and Bottom 20% of 738 companies in San Francisco.

Rate Environment the Highest

  • Experience - 3 to 6 Years
    +19%
  • Tenure - 2 to 5 Years
    +11%
  • Department - Engineering
    +7%

Rate Environment the Lowest

  • Department - IT
    -18%
  • Experience - 6 to 10 Years
    -13%
  • Ethnicity - Other
    -10%

How UC Berkeley's Environment Score is Calculated

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Results from 33 Employees in All Departments, All Genders, All Ethnicities and All Yrs. Experience Experience

AnswerPercent
7 or less24%
855%
1021%
120%
More than 120%
On average, how many hours do you work a day?
AnswerPercent
Extremely fast13%
Comfortably fast17%
Moderate23%
A bit slow10%
Bureaucratic37%
What's the work pace at your company?
AnswerPercent
Positive63%
Negative37%
Is your work environment positive or negative?
AnswerPercent
Yes100%
No0%
Does someone you work with closely, make you want to quit your job?
AnswerPercent
Yes50%
No50%
Do you have a close friend at work?
AnswerPercent
5% or Less20%
5-10%40%
10-25%40%
25-50%0%
50%+0%
What % of the time are you bored at work?

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