RAND - Objective Analysis steps from the beach - Research Assistant RAND Employee Review

5.0
Jun 15, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Prestige, brilliant and fun coworkers. Across the street from the beach. Santa Monica is way cool.

Cons

compensation compared with similar institutions seems a bit low. They have a graduate school? Strange.

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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
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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