A great place to work, but buyer beware. - Researcher RAND Employee Review

3.0
Nov 1, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

The people and environment are top notch, you cannot beat the location! I really loved my coworkers, the office location and how everyone got along there.

Cons

Salaried employee compensation is sub par with most of the payroll going to insanely high executive compensation. There are a lot of "adjunct staff" there which are basically contract employees with no benefits, because Rand is too cheap and greedy. I was privy to some of the salaries and was shocked when I saw that... I had people working under me without benefits because "it wasn't in the budget". I guess that was true since even the lowest level financial analyst was making a decent 6-figure salary.

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5.0
May 12, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Really flexible hours, amazing project team members, engaging projects.

Cons

You will need to network and find your own projects, sometimes finding ~3-5 projects at one time to ensure full utilization.

4.0
Jul 19, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Interesting work, some brilliant colleagues, access to senior decision makers throughout government.

Cons

Stressful trying to stay fully staffed on projects (i.e., internal market within RAND)

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