Postdoctoral Associate Review - Postdoctoral Research Associate MIT Employee Review

5.0
31 May 2017
Recommend
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Pros

- Prestige (MIT's brand is one of the best) - Colleagues are extremely smart and are either well on their way to become, or already are, leaders in their respective fields - Strong entrepreneurial spirit, and multiple opportunities for securing seed funding for ventures

Cons

- Work-life balance is non-existent - Facilities constantly under construction which leads to a lot of noise pollution/can make concentration difficult - Faculty extremely overworked, and routinely neglect to fulfill their career development and mentorship duties for their students and post docs

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5.0
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Pros

Great School for doing a PhD

Cons

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4.0
19 Jun 2026
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Pros

Brilliant colleagues A good degree of research independence Research funding sufficient for running experiments

Cons

Research divisions are mostly uncoordinated Administrative support is more reactive than proactive

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