Hesitated posting this, but... people should know. - Senior Research Scientist Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Employee Review

Salary - $82,000 a year. Enough to live in NYC, but you cant enjoy living in NYC. Most of your salary goes to mandatory expenses like rent, utilities, and public transit. Postdocs have access to subsidized housing, but it's still hard to make ends meet. This causes stress and makes you come to work tired or with a bad attitude because you cant enjoy yourself outside of work. Work-life Balance - non-existent. As a researcher, I was expected to work and answer emails while on vacation. This expectation was not expressed to me during the interview process at all. All while giving 110% and working more than 7.5 hours a day and weekends. I would expect that the 2 weeks a year I have to myself I truly had to myself. Management/Senior Management - they are researchers who were promoted and do not have good empathy or people skills. It's all about the bottom line to them. I was treated like a commodity that had to produce continuously, even when exceeding the productivity of the previous year.