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Great if you're a scientist, terrible administration - Associate Research Administrator The Broad Institute Employee Review

3.0
Jan 11, 2021
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Pros

BroadLife benefits, diversity and inclusion are amazing and not just lip service, smart people doing incredible scientific work

Cons

Administration is terrible, HR partner was known to gossip about things people had told her in confidence, salaries were ridiculously high and unfair for some positions in administration

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The Broad Institute Response
5y
Hi, this is Jennifer Crotty, Director of the HR Partner team. Thank you for writing a review. I am so pleased to see your positive feedback about our benefits (including our BroadLife office) and our diversity and inclusion efforts. However, I’m sorry to hear that you had a negative experience with the Administration team, and in particular the HR Partner team. Since I assumed the Director role in November, one of my primary areas of focus has been to foster better connections with the HR Partner team across the Broad community. I believe that hearing feedback from members of the Broad community is an important piece of that work. I would certainly welcome the opportunity to hear from you directly about what didn't work in relation to your experience with the HR Partner team and your suggestions for how to improve our working relationship with all members of the Broad community. You can email me directly at jcrotty@broadinstitute.org. Many thanks for your contributions to our scientific mission during your time at Broad!

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