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CIC (Cambridge Innovation Center)

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Lost its way with management changes - Anonymous employee CIC (Cambridge Innovation Center) Employee Review

1.0
7 Jun 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Used to be a good company to work for with managers that cared about their employees. Lots of PTO.

Cons

Laid off all the empathetic managers. Forced out all the employees that raised questions. Purposefully passed up promoting qualified employees just to hire people that were severely under-qualified. Questionable hiring/promoting practices with regards to DEI favoritism.

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5.0
8 Mar 2026
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Pros

Great organization. I was a mentor supporting their Social Impact Cohort -Supportive Accelerator Underrepresented Founders -Provide a variety of business workshops and investors -Access to startup tools and co-working space in Cambridge/Boston

Cons

-sometimes the startups are far from an MVP

2.0
27 Dec 2025
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Pros

- Strong mission. - Some leadership has good intentions. - Teams are generally committed and hardworking.

Cons

- Lack of transparency around layoffs and career advancement. - Layoffs happened with little warning or explanation, and I noticed that employees who asked questions about transparency were sometimes let go in the following months. - Over a 3–6 month period, every Black employee in roles similar to mine across multiple locations was let go. - Teams got smaller while workloads increased, leading to burnout and an ongoing sense of instability. - Salaries tend to be below industry standards.

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