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      Keep your head down and mouth shut - Staff Assistant III Harvard University Employee Review

      1.0
      Jul 27, 2014
      Staff assistant iii
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Great health insurance and benefits.

      Cons

      Minimal training and no mentorship provided. Extreme levels of compartmentalization where you are unable to pursue any work outside of your job description. You will be yelled at if you have any academic or work interests outside of your job description as well. Lots of behind-the-back talk among employees and no direct feedback is ever provided. Unless you are faculty or you have your doctorate, you are unable to provide feedback or have your own opinion about the way things are run. Remember that Harvard has outgrown its status as a university. It is a factory which prides itself on intellect and innovation, yet this could not be any further from the truth.

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      5.0
      Jun 25, 2026
      Phd student
      Recommend
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      Pros

      A PhD is always very advisor/PI dependent, but I had a great experience with room to learn, grow, and explore interesting research questions. As with any PhD program you’ll work pretty hard for relatively lower pay and perhaps less directly applicable industry career trajectory at the end, but if you find good people to tackle the journey with and get to work on interesting problems I personally think the journey is worthwhile!

      Cons

      Less of a program wide cohort in my particular engineering field. Some funding challenges with the govt last year but seem mostly back now, apart from the recent administration issues funding wasn’t generally a challenge

      5.0
      Jun 23, 2026
      Research fellow
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Unparalleled academic environment, virtually unlimited resources

      Cons

      Competitive on many fronts, research somewhat segregated by department

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