Decent place to work as an admin but highly dependent on which group you work for - Administrative Assistant The Broad Institute Employee Review

- admin on-boarding process is incredibly terrible and frustrating. you don't get nearly enough information then people continuously tell you what you did wrong but you weren't told about it in the first place. The current process in place is an "admin buddy" your first month and they have a list of things to go through but I don't think the list was nearly helpful enough and should be modified - been working here for a few months and there are still things that come up that I had no idea about bc my managers nor my "admin buddy" told me about it - Some managers don't let you work from home even in extenuating circumstances and even if you are able to do the same job at work - pay is not great - this might have been my own fault for not asking for more money - yearly increase isn't great - company wastes a lot of money. there's a free coffee cart every day that they pay an absolutely ridiculous amount of money for and could be going towards anything else. Personally, I don't think we need it since there is a coffee machine on every floor - There are fitness classes but no gym. I think more people would prefer working out alone vs fitness class and I'm sure they're spending too much money on the instructor when they could probably save up and build a work gym instead - Unsure about career opportunities for admin, although I may be too new to know