Berklee reviews

3.9

76% would recommend to a friend

(379 total reviews)
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Jim Lucchese

78% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

Berklee has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 379 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Berklee employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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379 reviews
4.0
May 24, 2018

Lively, Student-Centered Place to Work

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Excellent benefits. Very good work-life balance such as flex hours during summers, occasional work from home, and a convivial work atmosphere with talented, fun colleagues.

Cons

Sub-optimal workspaces for most teams; no real "campus" outside of the Berklee buildings. Some middle managers (and some senior managers) can be hidebound, resulting in obnoxiously inefficient workflows. Toxic relationships between divisions results in silos. For instance, there is effectively no working relationship between the IT department and the faculty teams. This has resulted in some teams hiring their own "in-house" IT who don't talk to the IT department.

5.0
Mar 26, 2018

Student Marketing Assistant

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great boss, great hours, great job

Cons

As a student you can only work up to 15 hours a week

1.0
Mar 17, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

- Good location - Sometimes there is good music

Cons

- They don't promote, give salary raises or bonuses. By doing so, they are pretty much saying to employees, "disengage"... "stop caring"! - Over time people become lazy, they get used to the status quo , "business as usual" mentality and management is happy to ride along. There's little "innovation" or desire for change. Management lives in a cloud, disconnected from the day-to-day and whenever they get involved there is little or no followthrough - For faculty and students all these means is more and more mediocre admin systems and processes while tuition continuous to increase at ridiculous levels - Too reactive, they wait until the last moment to take action. Example- they waited until Berklee's longtime sexual harassment culture made the news to start changing things -HR has an unusual amount of power over decisions that should live with the Deans - There is a culture of inflating everything. Inflating the little accomplishments they make, inflating alumni achievements, etc. For prospective students, it's all a BIG lie. The reality is only 3 out of 10 will land a job and the average graduate will make just above the federal poverty level

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