3.0
Nov 27, 2016
Current employee, more than 1 year
Cambridge, MA
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
+ MIT has tremendous financial support for hardware (great if you're in robotics). + There are several very smart people working on great research that you can approach. + Recently, postdocs were given free transit access, which is a definite plus.
Cons
- There is a strong demand to continually demo projects, which has little academic or practical purpose. - There is a large demand for postdocs to supervise and do general administration in large groups. This limits the scope a postdoc has for independent research. - There are many benefits for students at MIT, but few of them carry over to the postdocs.