Great job to work at while in school. Pretty low wage for summer opportunities. Would only work part time for them. - Research Associate MIT Employee Review

Amazing work environment, supportive colleagues, good benefits.

Current federal funding hurts MIT staffing

High quality core facilities and well resourced labs. Countless brilliant colleagues who can serve as mentors and collaborators

Students and Postdocs are expensive due to high overhead, so unreasonably high productivity is often expected compared to other institutions. PIs are typically stretched very thin. Most departments/labs are very space limited which makes it harder to do safe and productive research.