Great If You Want to Work with Old People - Applications Developer RAND Employee Review

3.0
Apr 13, 2017
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Pros

Love RAND's mission Benefits My Coworkers 5% bonus if you used all of your PTO I loved the people I worked with. They are smart and creative.

Cons

Underpaid. Meetings at RAND are the worst. I had 25 hours of meetings per week and was still expected to get my responsibilities done. I was expected to be architect, developer, qa and system administrator and paid a fraction of one of those roles. My boss forced me to cancel two vacations I planned. Both after they were approved.

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5.0
May 12, 2026
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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
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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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