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      5.0
      Oct 9, 2021
      Postdoctoral research fellow
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      Pros

      During the pandemic MIT worked exceptionally hard to protect emplyees' safety while providing sufficient testing to keep labs and shared facilities up and running. MIT provides lots of career-building resources for postdocs and some nice benefits, like MBTA passes.

      Cons

      If you have outside funding as a postdoc fellow, you are technically an "MIT affiliate". The health insurance plans available through MIT for affiliates are significantly worse than those provided to normal employees.

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      5.0
      Jun 25, 2026
      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Great research opportunities in EECS

      Cons

      Can be difficult to manage claszes

      4.0
      Jun 26, 2026
      Research specialist limited-mit doctoral
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      Pros

      High quality core facilities and well resourced labs. Countless brilliant colleagues who can serve as mentors and collaborators

      Cons

      Students and Postdocs are expensive due to high overhead, so unreasonably high productivity is often expected compared to other institutions. PIs are typically stretched very thin. Most departments/labs are very space limited which makes it harder to do safe and productive research.

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