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The Broad Institute reviews

4.0

76% would recommend to a friend

(805 total reviews)
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Todd Golub

82% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

The Broad Institute has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 805 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The The Broad Institute employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology industry (3.5 stars).

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805 reviews
1.0
Sep 25, 2024
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Pros

Free cheese plates seldom, but occasionally?

Cons

The Broad Institute is a place where the PIs run the show and upper management caters to their misbehavior, funding them often with industry or discretionary funds in order to cleanup messes, and thus cause undue stress and unfair remuneration for their hard working staff. Micromanagement and elitism leads to adversarial working conditions and continual turnover. The entire organization lacked any reliable method of financially reporting for 8 months this past fiscal year (FY24), and placed this burden directly on its staff. Leadership is so overly focused with process, micromanagement, and mistrust that it translates to 5-7 meetings per day. Stay away from this place at all costs.

1.0
Sep 25, 2024
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Pros

Cutting edge research and center for innovation

Cons

Bad experience with my lab, and I heard that since it is so inconsistent across labs, there are other toxic labs too. Kept getting bad performance reviews no matter how much harder I tried to work. Got threatened to be fired if I didn't leave. My superiors told me I didn't belong in research (I know this is not true because PIs in my other positions loved me)

2.0
Sep 24, 2024

Leadership is a mess

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Pros

Wonderful, passionate people and important research coming out of the institute

Cons

ELT is reactive with no real idea of how to run the org and good luck if you aren’t in their inner circle. Egos are huge and communication is terrible. Love to throw others under the bus…but that might be an industry thing. The Broad Should not be in the software business but should stick to straight bio

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