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Great place to work if you are wiling to work you butt off - Graduate Research Assistant, Physics Princeton University Employee Review

5.0
Aug 23, 2009
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Pros

Great support staff. Subsidized housing which is almost guaranteed for younger graduate students. Pays better than most other graduate schools. First year fellowship for all graduate students. Top-notch facilities. Some of the best professors available to work with.

Cons

Long hours in lab - expect to come in on weekends. Also expect a couple all nighters and 100 hour weeks. Town is isolated. Professors are demanding. Difficult qualifying exams.

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5.0
Jul 3, 2026
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Pros

EVERYTHING WAS GREAT! Princeton is great to both work for and study at. Go TIGERS!

Cons

if you love princeton, princeton will love you back, no cons

2.0
May 12, 2026
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Pros

Incredible benefits, worth 40% of your salary. So much time off it's hard to use. Great health care, 36 hour work week (if your boss doesn't make you work more), slow-paced.

Cons

So much time off it's hard to use it all without losing it with annual rollover caps. Pay is terrible. In theory, you come for the benefits and the lighter, less frenetic workload but that very much depends on who your boss is and what team you work for. I worked for a very mismanaged research center where my manager expected everyone to be available 24 hours a day. Most PU departments operate at a snail's pace, no sense of urgency even on urgent things. Independent faculty doing cool things but the institution is very lowercase c conservative. No pathway for advancement, especially on smaller teams.

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