tragic underpayment - Researcher MIT Employee Review

2.0
Dec 18, 2025
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Pros

Amazingly talented, creative, kind people

Cons

If you are not faculty or student, you will not count. No promotion or pay raise path for some of the best trained in the world. People leave and the Institute does not care.

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5.0
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Pros

good admin support great research environment

Cons

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