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Toxic Work Culture - Senior Research Administrator The Broad Institute Employee Review

1.0
Sep 25, 2024
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Pros

Free cheese plates seldom, but occasionally?

Cons

The Broad Institute is a place where the PIs run the show and upper management caters to their misbehavior, funding them often with industry or discretionary funds in order to cleanup messes, and thus cause undue stress and unfair remuneration for their hard working staff. Micromanagement and elitism leads to adversarial working conditions and continual turnover. The entire organization lacked any reliable method of financially reporting for 8 months this past fiscal year (FY24), and placed this burden directly on its staff. Leadership is so overly focused with process, micromanagement, and mistrust that it translates to 5-7 meetings per day. Stay away from this place at all costs.

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Cons

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Thank you for your honest feedback about your experience working at the Broad!
4.0
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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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