Research opportunities highly variable - Postdoctoral Research Associate MIT Employee Review

3.0
25 Jun 2014
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Pros

Can get involved in fantastic research opportunities. Very flexible (at least for me) vacation/ holiday/ work scheduling. Very nice benefits.

Cons

Can get stuck doing something awful - each fiefdom is drastically different in personality (mostly based on whomever is running said lab/department/etc). The fact that so much paperwork has to be dealt with in *paper* in this day and age is a bit ridiculous. Salary was a joke.

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5.0
22 Jun 2026
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Pros

Great researchers, well funded, exciting

Cons

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4.0
19 Jun 2026
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Pros

Brilliant colleagues A good degree of research independence Research funding sufficient for running experiments

Cons

Research divisions are mostly uncoordinated Administrative support is more reactive than proactive

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