Culture starts from the top. - Anonymous employee Milken Institute Employee Review

2.0
Feb 21, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great location, good work/life balance, mostly nice and smart people. You get the opportunity to interact with many high-level, impressive people, and the Institute looks good on a resume when you move on.

Cons

The quality staff members all eventually leave. There is a high disparity between value placed in senior and junior staff, evident in pay and promotions. Transparency and communication are clear issues, with a lot of miscommunication leading to animosity within teams and between departments. You do have the opportunity to do a bit of interesting, good work, but, at the end of the day, it’s all about Global Conference. I wish I would have trusted the negative reviews on here more before taking the position.

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