Toxic. Run - Staff Berklee Employee Review

1.0
14 Nov 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Students are amazing for the most part.

Cons

- Toxic - Exploitative - Bunch of administrators with no idea of what they are doing - Diversity efforts are performative and tokenizing - Ableist - Horrible HR that does nothing for employees - Censorship of voices advocating for students, faculty and staff - Supporters of genocide

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5.0
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Cons

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1.0
20 Apr 2026
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Pros

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Cons

-forced to train the ai bot that will replace you -despite being the top performer on your team and being reassured repeatedly your job is secure, you will get laid off with no explanation or respect -c suite prefers to keep their 500k+ salaries and 80k+ bonuses even if it means laying off 80+ employees who only make 55k -CEO led first layoffs in berklee's entire history, no transparency with any managers, no discussion or anything -CEO used money "saved" from layoffs to give other employees bonuses and buy unnecessary property

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