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      4.4

      86% would recommend to a friend

      (4,260 total reviews)

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      91% approve of CEO

      76% positive business outlook

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      MIT has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 4,260 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The MIT 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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      4.0
      Oct 2, 2014

      Immense resources, great people

      Graduate student
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      Pros

      Being a graduate student at MIT opens a lot of doors. Some professors are loaded with research funds, so it's a great environment for intellectual discovery. Also, if you want to make a startup, MIT is the place to be.

      Cons

      Very isolating experience, research is often frustrating and fruitless. You basically live for the small moments of success. Also inconsistent access to some opportunities between different labs, particularly in regards to internships. Internships are really helpful for post-graduation employment, but some (most?) professors really hate them.

      5.0
      Oct 1, 2014

      MIT is a good place to work.

      Postdoctoral associate
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      Pros

      If nothing else it beefs up your resume. They recently made a significant improvement to the employee personal computing website (the only SAPweb system was pretty bad). I've had very positive experiences at MIT medical, the hospital that services the health plan. The benefits are great - health, dental, eyeplan, T-pass.

      Cons

      MIT oddly seems to struggle with handling issues related to computing -- its IT is a bit disorganized, it's unclear how to do simple things like finding servers to run computing jobs, accessing journals on JSTOR has to go through a ridiculous system called VERA that just adds more steps to be able to see papers, and until recently its website for the employee personal information/resources looked like it hadn't been updated in a decade. (It has since been improved with nice results.) These were all things that ran very smoothly at my last university.

      5.0
      Sep 30, 2014

      mit

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      enjoy intellectual freedom in research environment

      Cons

      under the pressure of social expectation

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