Experience will depend ENTIRELY on your PI
Pros
Real efforts are made by the office for postdoctoral affairs and office for international students/scholars to facilitate building a community. The Yale Postdoc association does amazing work to bring postdocs together for social and professional development activities, and tries to advocate for improved conditions. Good health insurance. Pay is ok for an academic postdoc, but terrible compared to industry.
Cons
Your PI is God, the only God above them is your Dept. Chair or Dean. There's no real HR to go to with bullying/harassment issues, no formal grievance procedures and poor mental health coverage. Everyone is on 1-year contracts even if the grant is multi-year, so your PI can drop you at renewal for no reason. Many people burn out, many are forced to drop out, some make it to tenure track, but with often totally unnecessary scars.
