Awful pay for students, wonderful environment - Graduate Student Researcher UC Irvine Employee Review

3.0
4 Mar 2026
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Pros

Great mentors and people! Also usually doing meaningful work

Cons

Pay for grad students is much lower than other universities

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5.0
26 Jun 2026
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Pros

job security benefits hybrid work schedule

Cons

job security applies to everyone - who is not fitted for the position. even during probation period and at a at will state, HR does not allow departments to fire people even if the candidate is unfit pay is not competitive room for growth does not exist as people come to the job to retire

4.0
28 Jun 2026
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Pros

I learned a lot while I was there.

Cons

The MEng program seemed all over the place. I wanted to study machine learning, but too much of the program seemed focused on other things.

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