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      4.2

      86% would recommend to a friend

      (4,062 total reviews)

      Alan Garber

      82% approve of CEO

      71% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.1

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.1

      Work/Life balance

      4.0

      Culture & values

      4.0

      Career opportunities

      3.8

      Compensation and benefits

      3.6

      Senior management

      Harvard University has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 4,062 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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      4K reviews
      2.0
      Aug 13, 2008

      If work-life is your priority, Harvard is great. If you want to live above poverty, it is not.

      Program coordinator
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      Pros

      For a healthy work-life balance, Harvard is the place. Harvard offers terrific benefits and opportunities to study to its employees. Flex time and near free gym membership are other perks.

      Cons

      The hulking bureaucracy slows everything down. Career employees are unmotivated. Salary is low. There is not a well developed incentive structure.

      4.0
      Aug 11, 2008

      Great place to work... okay salary

      Program coordinator
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      Pros

      The benefits are great and the people are even better. You're surrounded by more resources than you could possibly imagine. If you enjoy working in an environment where you're constantly surrounded by bright, talented individuals, HBS would be fitting for you. HBS truly appreciates the concept of a "work-life" balance.

      Cons

      Though the benefits are great, the organizational environment overall is bottom heavy (not enough managment positions). That being said, it's difficult to move into higher level position. If you are a union employee you don't receive rasies based on performance (you only receive what the union is able to negotiate). The negotiated salary is okay (3%), but that just covers the costs of inflation.

      2.0
      Aug 4, 2008

      It seems like it will be great to work at Harvard University until you actually work here.

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      The best reason to work for Harvard University is the TAP education benefit which allows employees to take courses at Harvard Extension School for $40 each plus the cost of books. Courses do not have to be job related, and can be taken for no credit, undergraduate credit, or graduate credit. You can get a degree in "Liberal Arts" at Harvard Extension School, which is not the same thing as getting a real degree at Harvard College. Harvard Extension School is the open enrollment evening division of Harvard. The one exception to this is the School of Education. You can get a Masters degree in Education using TAP through Harvard's School of Education that is the same degree that full-time "regular" students get. Working at Harvard can be used as a stepping stone to finishing a degree, getting an advanced degree, or simply as a means to enriching one's personal life.

      Cons

      There is very little opportunity for advancement at Harvard. The faculty and the students are carefully selected from amongst the best and brightest, senior management is not. There are many managers here who are jaded and bitter and who will never voluntarily leave, and they make life miserable for the people who work for them. This fact is widely acknowledged by senior management, which has run several employee surveys over the past 5 years trying to figure out how to improve Harvard employees work experience. Unfortunately, they did not follow through and insist on change or documentation of change, and so there has been little improvement.

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