Great place to work with notable cons - Financial Analyst RAND Employee Review

4.0
Dec 29, 2020
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Pros

Excellent value for work-life balance, staff may use sabbatical time and proximity to Santa Monica beach was wonderful.

Cons

Those within the Finance Mgt team have been employed for many years so it can appear clickish. I was disappointed for the lack of African Americans at the RAND Corporate office (specifically in leadership roles). It seemed that the majority of those African-Americans were temp employees which leads me to my final con about RAND- their use of hiring temp employees. I don't know if their practice of temp employees actually leads to onboarding temps as permanent. I understand the direct hire process is overly complicated and time consuming. The direct hire process and the drawbacks of temp employees makes employment at RAND elusive.

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5.0
May 12, 2026
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Pros

Really flexible hours, amazing project team members, engaging projects.

Cons

You will need to network and find your own projects, sometimes finding ~3-5 projects at one time to ensure full utilization.

4.0
Jul 19, 2026
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Pros

Interesting work, some brilliant colleagues, access to senior decision makers throughout government.

Cons

Stressful trying to stay fully staffed on projects (i.e., internal market within RAND)

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