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Northeastern University reviews

4.2

80% would recommend to a friend

(3,543 total reviews)
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62% positive business outlook

Northeastern University has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 3,543 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Northeastern 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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2.0
Jul 25, 2014

Crazy managers

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Free tuition, nice location, easy commute

Cons

crazy managers, lack of support,

2.0
Jul 25, 2014

Get your benefits and get out

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Pros

there are great benefits (free tuition for employee and spouse/dependents, a 10% 403b match from NU, good vacation time, lots of paid holidays - like the whole week from Christmas Eve until New Year's Day), good location in the city right at a commuter rail stop as well as the Orange and Green lines of the MBTA system

Cons

There's no job training, so good looking trying to figure anything out! As for getting stuff done with other offices, try and find good workers and butter them up so they'll help you, because good help is hard to find. You will come across plenty of un-motivated employees who only work until their kids graduate on free tuition from the university. The staff also dictate to management how work is split up, in that some staff just flat-out refuse to do tasks within their job description, so either the jobs don't get done, or are piled by management on staff members who have a work ethic. I was shocked when I saw a clerical staff tell her manager, "No, I'm not doing it. I already did a report this morning" when asked to do an urgent report in the afternoon. She was also shopping online when she said this. Not only was the work then given to someone else, but the employee was not even spoken to about this attitude.

4.0
Jul 23, 2014

Great place for internationals

Recommend
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Pros

Location is great. Transportation, restaurants, hospitals... There are lots of chances can have a job. Many companies and lots of job fair are here. You can go to MIT or Harvard for the job fair easily.

Cons

University isn't well known yet. There are Harvard, MIT, BU and BC near here. High life expenses is a problem.

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