19 Mar 2019
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AU Reviews
4.0
83% would recommend to a friend
67% positive business outlook
AU has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 139 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The AU employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).
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1.0
20 Aug 2020
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Pros
If the only motive in your life is to feed yourself, it could be an okayish place to earn your bread and butter. For a student it is a great place if he/she wishes to get their degree without any hard work. The only expectation from students is that they keep paying the university. The university "distributes" degrees in four years time, I believe. If you fail (if you cannot score more than 20 or 25 out of 100), just pay them extra money, attend a month long lectures during the summer vacation for the course you had failed, because they do not have a supplementary examination system in place. And then you are passed! Hurrah! Hope you get my sarcasm! They mostly hire foreign PhD/postdoc faculties to lure students and also faculties because both students and faculties keep leaving! What a system!
Cons
Management is highly (or lowly?) stupid and corrupt. They fool students by bragging that they are trying to build a university of the likes of MIT, CalTech, Oxford etc. In essence they are probably worse than the worst college of Gujarat. Example: They rolled out BS Physics program but they neither have the required faculties, nor they have the laboratories. They do not have any research agenda and still expect you to publish papers in journals like Science and Nature. They expect you to teach two to three classes of 90-110 students per semester, without any capable teaching assistant (though they will promise 3 TA's per course). Further they expect you to do continuous evaluation of the course, which requires at least two class tests, three-four assignments, one mid-sem exam and one final exam. Imagine how many copies you have to correct for such three courses per semester, and still they expect you to publish papers! I experienced a few parallel nexus comprising of faculties and management personnel that runs the university, each one of them butters the other. Absolutely corrupt and low! Highly incapable and corrupt leadership at all levels. Once you get in this institute it will be very difficult to leave because the senior faculties and management will try their best to sabotage your career options if you apply to other institutes. I and my fellow friend experienced this myself. There is no democracy and no transparency in the functioning of the institute. They may also change your employment contract at their will and you will probably have no say on it. I guess not all want to waste their time in fighting legal battles against corrupt retards. Too much of micromanagement may make you sick. At least one paracetamol pill per week! If you can ignore all these, you may love working here. If you can't, you will end up writing a review like this one. By the way my productivity has increased many-fold after I left this institute.
1.0
13 Jun 2019
Recommend
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Pros
Good colleagues, work flexibility, bright students
Cons
Ideocratic magnomaniac top management, prone to whims and fancies. no clear policies, high nepotism, extremely high attrition rate
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