MIT not a fun place to work - Postdoctoral Fellow MIT Employee Review

3.0
Aug 27, 2012
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Pros

Cool access to technology Lots of smart people

Cons

People are very asocial - as in won't have normal conversations with you - many do not have basic social skills Very poorly managed Salary was terrible and had to fight for every penny Way worse on every level than Harvard

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Cons

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4.0
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Pros

Brilliant colleagues A good degree of research independence Research funding sufficient for running experiments

Cons

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