MIT reviews

4.4

86% would recommend to a friend

(467 total reviews)

Sally Kornbluth

91% approve of CEO

77% positive business outlook

Reviews by job title

467 reviews

Reviews about "Culture"

Return to all reviews
4.0
Oct 7, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Wonderful community of scientists, thinkers, and problem-solvers Brilliant colleagues Diverse student body Interesting work Great employee benefits

Cons

Non-stop work culture can be at odds with values about work-life balance Bureaucratic processes are ample, and affect innovation at the staff level

1.0
Sep 28, 2021

Unimpressed

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Retirement matching is fairly good (5%, plus 5% towards pension after a year). And I appreciate the communications that come from the very top - they tend to be well composed, timely, insightful, helpful, and fairly clear. Good words - but alas, execution doesn't seem to match.

Cons

Inept. From an utterly incompetent IT department (ironic, right!?), to a miserable HR department who responds in one word, ambiguous replies (if they reply at all), to crap adaptation to a Covid working world (force people to come in 5 days a week - even those with absolutely no duties that require being on-site, and only help folks with getting to work via superspreader or ill-controlled scenarios {mass transit and Uber}, and over-crowded in-person meetings), to unimpressive parental leave policies that are substantially worse than any colleague I've spoken to in other universities or experienced in the non-profits before the PFMLA. Conditions on employment also seem to change without notice. (e.g. introducing out of the blue that, though we were hired at a certain salary with a "fully funded position," within the next few months we have to have personally raised a good portion of our salary if we want to get paid.) I'm just time-and-again, struck by how unimpressive MIT really is.

Viewing 199 - 201 of 467 Reviews

Glassdoor has 4,842 MIT reviews submitted anonymously by MIT employees. Read employee reviews and ratings on Glassdoor to decide if MIT is right for you.