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Marc Tessier-Lavigne
580 Ratings
Pros
"Beautiful campus, intelligent coworkers, culture that encourages professional development" (in 219 reviews)
"good work life balance; good health insurance" (in 169 reviews)
Cons
"The cost of living in California" (in 191 reviews)
"Living in bay area as a postdoc with dependents can be tough for the postdoc annual salary" (in 126 reviews)
Pros & Cons are excerpts from user reviews. They are not authored by Glassdoor.
- Current Employee★★★★★Featured Review
Pros
Patient oriented, research driven, and always willing to offer mentorship
Cons
No benefits for part-time employees
- Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Stanford offers great undergraduate teaching and course assistant roles. You can work with amazing faculty and be compensated sufficiently.
Cons
The roles can be very hard to get
- Former Employee, more than 10 years★★★★★
Pros
Lots of financial resources for research.
Cons
Absolutely no incentive to be a good teacher. There is a stratified system between practitioners and tenured faculty. Most faculty have long ago stopped making relevant work.
- Former Employee, more than 10 years★★★★★
Pros
Great benefits and extras such as $800/year for training - which you can use for almost anything.
Cons
Stagnant work environment in most departments, no room for advancement. Like a caste system - professors are professors, lecturers are lecturers, staff is staff, etc.
Continue reading - Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Great School to work at.
Cons
Quarter System is very fast paced
- Former Employee★★★★★
Pros
Great place for networking and gateway to Silicon Valley.
Cons
Course registration system is complicated.
- Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
If you are looking for working with a team that having no such politics, here it is.
Cons
Cant determine any cons since starting working here
Continue reading - Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
nice research environment + friendly people
Cons
can not really think of
- Current Employee★★★★★
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Great place to do interesting research
Cons
There are very few cons
- Current Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
working at stanford is stable and relaxing
Cons
little career growth opportunities, bureaucratic
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