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WPI is a class struggle. - Laboratory Manager, Department of Fire Protection Engineering Worcester Polytech Employee Review

1.0
Mar 4, 2016
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Pros

Working with the students. If you are fortunate to have a good dept. head WPI can be a great place to work in many other ways as well.

Cons

Staff does not receive support from management or administration. Tenured faculty are not held to the ethical standard WPI boasts. They are allowed to waste money, abuse staff and participate in inappropriate activities without repercussions.

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Pros

Flexible, great professors, strong union

Cons

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4.0
Jun 24, 2026
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Pros

Can be pretty easy if most of your work is office hours. I had about seven hours a week and most of the time there weren't many students.

Cons

Grading was a lot harder than I expected. Pretty demoralizing honestly; a lot of clearly ChatGPT submissions (ECE programming class mostly with freshmen who'd never seen code before, so not surprising). Grading paper exams was fine.

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