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Good place to work - Anonymous employee George Washington University Employee Review

4.0
Mar 15, 2014
Anonymous employee
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Pros

CPS offers its professional staff a great deal of latitude to do your job as you see fit. You must produce desired results - but there is not an autocratic this is how we do it philosophy -- which is very refreshing

Cons

In a laissez faire environment - it is difficult to get resources or support when you need as your manager is not always current with your needs and challenges. It is incumbent on you to speak up - in the appropriate channels - to get help.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Jul 13, 2026
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Pros

1) Tuition Remission is nice and adds a lot to the implicit salary. 2) Work-life balance is typically fairly good. Rarely are you pushing more than 45 hours a week. 3) Depending on your supervisor, you may get decent managering responsibilities quickly.

Cons

1) The pay at GW is significantly below market, especially for quantitative researchers. They try to make up for it with tuition remission but at some point, it isn't worth it. 2) The only way to push one's salary up is to switch jobs within GWU. The annual raise is 2.5%. Managers are able to petition HR to raise it higher but I have never heard of anyone receiving more than 5% and promotions are very rare, even among good managers. 3) Not great for quantitative researchers -- managers are typically more qualitative and thus aren't great at supervision. 4) HR and administration is super slow and often times gets in the way of an efficient office.

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