Unlike any Other Company - Anonymous employee RAND Employee Review

4.0
Nov 28, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great Human Resources services and benefits; they take very good care of researchers and support staff; wonderful facilities to work in in the Pittsburgh, DC, and Santa Monica offices; intellectually challenging and globally topical substance being worked on and discussed each day.

Cons

Death by meeting, death by the internal process vortex of doom, and death by calcification of internal organizational structure (and lack of flexibility between or within internal groups); a cautious fear permeates a significant portion of the service groups which tamps down innovation or real growth; skill sets are encouraged to stagnate; *severe* lack of investment into personnel development and training; there a minimal avenues for advancement.

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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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