Howard Hughes Medical Institute Reviews

Pros

Strong research program in science, neuroscience in particular. People with vastly different background work in the same building, making collaboration easy.

Pros

Fantastic benefits and amenities that fosters a wonderful work/life balance

Advice to Management

Greater investment in support of operational staff

Pros

An organization you can be proud to work for, beautiful campus, on-site cafeteria, friendly co-workers, great benefits

Pros

Top notch healthcare, benefits, retirement savings, etc.
Great culture, management nurtures professional development

Advice to Management

Develop HHMI-funded investigators into better leaders and mentors and evaluate them on this performance aspect. Let it also be contingent on keeping their funding.
The non-interference strategy leaves principal investigators open to developing wasteful spending habits, and carelessness towards their lab personnel. Attaining HHMI funding is somewhat akin to winning the lottery.

Pros

Surround yourself with highly intelligent people (some of the most brilliant people in the world) who will constantly challenge you to think out of the box.

Advice to Management

Look beyond just publications and recognition in articles/journals. There are far more important tasks at hand.

Pros

Working the best, brightest, hardest working people from around the world

Advice to Management

Keep creating events and gatherings for people to get together and blow off steam in a freeing environment

Pros

Great people that care deeply about what they do and are happy to share their expertise with you. Campus is really beautiful and offers many amenities, including subsidized housing for employees. Benefits are awesome!

If you are a scientist this is probably one of the best places in the world to work.

Advice to Management

Bigger bonuses would be great for us poor entry-level folks.

Pros

Great Benefits, Beautiful Campus.

Advice to Management

Please don't hire slackers from other organizations.

Pros

N/A I can not think of any

Pros

Tuition reimbursement, on-site daycare, flex time, abundant PTO and sick time, relaxed and collegial atmosphere, movie theatre, pub, rotating lunch menu with all food sold at cost. A fun place to work, lots of ways to learn and grow through workshops, books talks and seminars.

If you want a steady job in a great company, lots of work-life balance, schedule flexibility and don't care about the lack of promotions or not getting raises that keep up with yearly inflation, then this is a great place to work.

I loved my time here.

Advice to Management

Consider programs and efforts to retain support staff. It's expected for those in labs to rotate out of the company after a period of years, but that shouldn't be expected for those in operations, who possess a great breadth of knowledge of the science and often educate the incoming scientists/labs, particularly those who come in without prior experience in some aspects of the work.