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Harvard University reviews

4.2

84% would recommend to a friend

(4,075 total reviews)

Alan Garber

81% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.2

Diversity & inclusion

4.0

Career opportunities

3.9

Culture & values

3.9

Work/Life balance

3.8

Compensation and benefits

3.6

Senior management

Harvard University has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 4,075 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Harvard University employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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Reviews by job title

4K reviews
2.0
Feb 24, 2015

None

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Everyone wants to be there baby.

Cons

Hedge fund posing as a seat of education

5.0
Jan 28, 2015

Good place to work at any career level

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Challenging with room for professional growth

Cons

Some managers lack leadership/organizational skills

2.0
Dec 22, 2014

Interesting people, bad bureaucracy cuts benefits from 1/1/2015

Non-union staff
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The people I work with are all intelligent and engaged in what they are doing. The benefits used to be a plus, but starting Jan 1, 2015 the benefits change to a con.

Cons

There are multiple bureaucracies across the university, hurting the ability to coordinate any work (research, administration, teaching). The IT support is barely competent; they have repeatedly been unable to handle matters the IT support at my previous employer (also a university) handled routinely. The pay for non-union staff is about 20% below peer institutions, which used to be largely off-set by better benefits, but that will not be true after Jan 1, 2015 when the cost of medical benefits go up so much that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Faculty Senate voted unanimously to request the Provost to scrap it because of its effects on junior faculty and staff. The Provost applied minor band-aids and is going ahead.

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