21 Oct 2024
Wistar Institute Postdoctoral Fellow reviews
3.6
54% would recommend to a friend
Dario C. Altieri
54% approve of CEO
44% positive business outlook
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5.0
19 Apr 2024
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Pros
Very bright people work here. There is a lot of knowledge to gained from colleagues. Take advantage of it. For a relatively small research institute they have incredible shared facilities. Whatever kind of experiment you want to do, you can probably do here. There is a ton of experiment support for researchers. Admin and facility service are there to facilitate the researchers. Labs run as smoothly as your PI can manage things.
Cons
It's an academic research institute so a lot of cons just come with that territory. Pay is low and turnover is high. Most staff outside the faculty are only here temporarily: technicians, grad students, post-docs, etc. Your manager will be your PI. If you have a bad PI then you'll have a bad time. Wistar, and every other academic research organization on Earth has a hard time dealing with toxic faculty. As long as they bring in grant money and publish in big journals they will be slow to take any action against them. You just have to avoid working in these labs unless you have a lot of patience and very thick skin.
1.0
19 Sept 2023
Toxic work atmosphere and really poor facilities. Not a place for science.
Former employee, less than 1 year
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Pros
Nothing. It really has anything good.
Cons
The worst of all is the extremely toxic atmosphere. Old laboratories and facilities, no organization at all and no options for career development. Just another publish or perish fake science place. Really disappointing experience working here.
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