MIT Reviews

Pros

Comprehensive benefits including 401k and pension. MIT Medical on site for health care is very convenient. Reputation of institute is outstanding.

Cons

Non technical roles aren't always appreciated as much as they should be. Health care costs are fairly expensive. Limited opportunities for growth within departments, labs, centers (DLCs).

Pros

Work with the smartest people in the world.

Cons

Hard to stay open-minded.
Sometimes people are compartmentalized to fit into a pigeon hole.

Advice to Senior Management

Communication across discipline from the fundamental level.

Pros

Mature, dedicated atmosphere. Very helpful people.

Cons

Decisions can come about slowly... Must be the academic atmosphere!

Advice to Senior Management

You guys do a great job!

Pros

1. publish papers
2. got visibility
3. good for international students/scholars if they want to move to USA (or back to be be a faculty member)
4. might be able to get a child who is born in the US (with US citizenship)
5. research work which is time consuming but not very stressful
6. establish good relationship with wide range of scholars

Cons

1. Not stable job so need to move to the formal position as soon as possible
2. work with students who might not be professional (neither hard worker)
3. Low salary
4. Low social state
5. No benefit package
6. No free insurance package
7. poor life style according to the relatively long working hours to take care expts/research issues
8. may lost your job/life after a few years of postdoc without finding a proper faculty position

Advice to Senior Management

1. Good business to let the international scholars who like to be in the us to do the researches

Pros

I get to do good research and learn what I want to. My fellow students are very friendly to me.

Cons

Have to work very hard in a very competitive environment. Have to work very hard in a very competitive environment

Advice to Senior Management

Have to work very hard in a very competitive environment. Have to work very hard in a very competitive environment

Pros

MIT benefits are some of the best available... very generous. They are cutting back every year I'm sure, but the benefits package is still better than most other places.

Cons

People tend to get very settled at MIT, so there are limited paths for promotion , specifically with Administrative staff.

Advice to Senior Management

Management needs to come up with a promotional path for non-tenured, non-faculty, etc. basically for the administrative folks that keep the place running. There needs to be a way for the talented ones in that bunch, that are not ready to retire, to have a CLEAR promotional path.

Pros

Excellent place to learn and grow, get inspired by others.

Cons

End up living in a bubble with minimial time for activities outside work, however you would only go to work there if you really enjoy it.

Advice to Senior Management

Work to relieve stress and be more rewarding to employees in terms of bonuses for excellent performances.

Pros

Smart people
High reputation in the all universities

Cons

work work work
if you want to success, you have no weekend

Pros

Phenomenal reputation and ability to attract research dollars

Cons

Clueless as to how to treat highly credentialed non-faculty researchers

Advice to Senior Management

Look at high companies out there who have labs to figure out how to make a career track for non-faculty researchers

Pros

Working at MIT lets you learn and network with top notch colleagues. In addition, you'll have access to some of the best facilities in the world, with reputational access to funding sources.

Cons

high cost of living area
cold climate
sub-par compensation