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      4.2

      74% would recommend to a friend

      (980 total reviews)
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      Dr. Thomas F. Rosenbaum

      77% approve of CEO

      70% positive business outlook

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      Caltech (California) has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 980 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Caltech (California) 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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      980 reviews
      4.0
      Mar 12, 2013

      Graduate Research Assistant

      Graduate research assistant
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      Pros

      Flexible hours, interesting work. Most days are low stress. In one way or another, working as a GRA exercises your scientific skills. Often, we are given opportunities to teach, also.

      Cons

      Often hours are long, and the experience is highly dependent on your PI/Advisor. And the fact is, for better or for worse, this is effectively an apprenticeship--we are ostensibly in a "teaching by doing" program, that is effectively cheap research labor.

      5.0
      Mar 2, 2013

      You should go here and work here.

      Teaching assistant
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      Pros

      Working or studying here is a great opportunity, if you can get admitted or hired. This is a very driven and high producing campus, across all disciplines, so you can expect the culture to push you to your best. The undergraduate community is unique, in the absolute best ways (but sometimes, also the worst ways). Being a teaching assistant lets you get to know some very prestigious faculty besides your adviser.

      Cons

      The school is small, so might not have as rich of opportunities to collaborate with others within your department (some groups are very specialized and non-overlapping).

      5.0
      Mar 1, 2013

      A small top-notch university with less red-tape

      Research scientist
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      Pros

      Campus is beautiful, weather is perfect 9 months of the year, administration is efficient. Access to technical and scientific resources is good. Not far from UCLA. World-class faculty and students.

      Cons

      Due to smaller size, research topics are not as broad as a place like, e.g., UCLA or Stanford. Traffic is bad if you don't live in Pasadena. Summers are very hot. The physical library holdings are not especially large (for such a famous technical school), and quite specialized.

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