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Genius Scientists, Huge Egos, Awful HR - Anonymous employee The Broad Institute Employee Review

2.0
Jan 8, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great Science. Great technological resources. Brilliant coworkers. Never dull. Great stepping stone to open other doors.

Cons

The trouble with people curing cancer is that they all know they're curing cancer and are sure everything they're doing is more important than niceties like professional courtesy or work-life balance. HR is truly awful.

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Cons

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Thank you for your honest feedback about your experience working at the Broad!
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Benefits, such as PTO and health, are fantastic.

Cons

A pro and a con are there are rarely set ways to do things. You can pave your own way, but others could be paving a way to the same destination and just creating more paths when it would be better to work together.

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Thank you for your thoughtful review! We love that you feel the autonomy to pave your own way here, and recognize that also can present its own challenge with duplicating efforts.
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