Arbitrary and unforgiving: good and bad, but you are worth much less than the reputation of your boss or the university - Anonymous employee Penn State Employee Review

Everything you produce may feel half-baked due to resource constraints, largely because there doesn't seem to be any accountability at the highest echelons, and the institution is extremely ego-driven. Some personal projects get no support and some get a lot, and it feels like the distribution of intangible benefits is extremely arbitrary. If people like you, it's great. If people don't care, it's not. If they dislike you, it spreads, and everyone now pushes you away. It can become extremely toxic extremely quickly.