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Princeton University

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This role offers a great place to work if you are raising children and don’t want to advance in your career. - Academic Manager Princeton University Employee Review

5.0
Oct 13, 2022
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Pros

Great salary, great benefits, wonderful colleagues, wonderful work environment. Generous PTO, when you can carve out time to take it.

Cons

There is absolutely no career advancement for academic managers, very few are able to jump this track and move into central administration at a higher rank. Many managers settle into their role and stay a decade or more. Great for Princeton and the faculty, not so good for the managers themselves.

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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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