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21 reviews
5.0
15 Jul 2022

Technical Student

Recommend
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Pros

Comfortable workplace, helpful supervisors, and so on.

Cons

There are no cons at all.

4.0
7 Nov 2022

CFRS

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Pros

-The area is in the middle of Europe -Nice place to live, if you live in Switzerland -Colleagues are the best part of the job -Benefits in general. CERN takes care of you and your family -Multinational work environment -Gears are decent

Cons

-Management of CERN in general is so bad. Most of the supervisors have been there for years and they have diverged from normal "fire brigades" they are still living in 2010. -Permanent contracts. Once you get one, you know that you are impossible to be sacked. So that's why the management is only focusing on their own "nose". -The most of the people getting quite greedy once they realize who easy it's to make some extra at the service. -All the external trainings have been removed because of budget reasons.

5.0
17 Sept 2021

Summer student Programme

Anonymous employee
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Pros

An amazing experience. My supervisors were brilliant.

Cons

Can not think of any.

3.0
21 Apr 2023
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Pros

intersting projects, you can meet nice people, international organisation, good pay and amazing insights into politics where people are mostly driven by keeping their good jobs and fill their pockets with taxpayers money.

Cons

nepotism, incompetent supervisors, many old local people who do not share any of the values the organisation claims to defend - with zero consequences because the famous "ID" contract. no progression. no excelence, no striving for cutting edge.

5.0
20 Sept 2021

perfect

Anonymous employee
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Pros

good salary good environment good people good supervisor good surrounding

Cons

expensive cafeteria crappy bikes burned pizza old buildings complicated strucure

4.0
8 Feb 2023

Technical student at CERN

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Pros

It is a great opportunity to learn. The whole experience depends on the supervisor who is usually a lovely person, then you'll have a great time. Everybody is very keen to help you

Cons

The whole experience depends on the supervisor who is usually a lovely person, then you'll have a great time. However, if you get bad supervisor you'll have a bad time so check your supervisor beforehand through colleagues, former students etc.

3.0
22 May 2023

so so

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Pros

working hours no tax health insurance

Cons

supervision no career path (2-year contracts) lot of politics

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