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      4.0

      73% would recommend to a friend

      (502 total reviews)

      Jason Matheny

      53% approve of CEO

      35% positive business outlook

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      RAND has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 502 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The RAND employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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      502 reviews
      5.0
      Nov 14, 2009

      RAND, an outstanding place to work

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      RAND is an outstanding work environment. For researchers, the access to information on an extraordinarily broad range of subject areas is probably without parallel. This is a place for people with a passion about public service. Because it's a non-profit, it's not for those who wish to enrich themselves financially. Benefits are crafted with care and compassion.

      Cons

      Because RAND is a non-profit organization, it is not for people looking for high salary opportunities. Management could reach down more often to researchers and other staff members.

      3.0
      Nov 1, 2008

      A great place to work, but buyer beware.

      Researcher
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      Pros

      The people and environment are top notch, you cannot beat the location! I really loved my coworkers, the office location and how everyone got along there.

      Cons

      Salaried employee compensation is sub par with most of the payroll going to insanely high executive compensation. There are a lot of "adjunct staff" there which are basically contract employees with no benefits, because Rand is too cheap and greedy. I was privy to some of the salaries and was shocked when I saw that... I had people working under me without benefits because "it wasn't in the budget". I guess that was true since even the lowest level financial analyst was making a decent 6-figure salary.

      5.0
      Oct 6, 2008

      Great place to work.

      Behavioral scientist
      Recommend
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      Pros

      RAND is a non-profit organization, which is very similar to a university, without students. It has a slightly shady reputation, but that is undeserved (although it might have been deserved in the past). One gets involved in research which is cutting edge, and is surrounded by very bright very hard working individuals. There is relatively generous paid vacation time, and in something that I think indicates what RAND think of their staff, vacation pay is higher (for researchers, not sure about others) than normal pay. That is, if you take all the vacation allocated to you, your pay will be about 5% higher than if you did not take any vacation.

      Cons

      Coverage. Finding 100% coverage (i.e. 100% of your salary) is the thing that all researchers finds stressful, and particularly stressful to start off with, and for your first year or two at RAND.

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