MIT reviews

4.4

85% would recommend to a friend

(4,257 total reviews)

Sally Kornbluth

90% approve of CEO

75% positive business outlook

MIT has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 4,257 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The MIT employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
Jul 27, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Obviously it is a place with a huge wealth of expertise and talented, ambitious individuals.

Cons

As a postdoc, there actually aren't that many opportunities to take advantage of being at such a prestigious institution, and you are almost entirely isolated on the island of your research group. If you're having a bad time with your PI, there's more or less nothing you can do about it so your boss essentially holds your career in their hands. While this may be the case in almost all academic institutions, MIT has zero support structure for postdocs, not even an exit interview. I personally found the research culture to be very competitive to the point of being quite toxic, and confidence often seemed to come before competence, though this is only my experience of a single research group. This competitive culture seemed to be the same at the Professor level, as my advisor seemed far more interested in furthering his career than making genuine scientific advances.

3.0
Jul 22, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-good city (Cambridge) -access to world-class resources and libraries

Cons

-toxic work culture (burnout is actively encouraged) -promotion of fear culture amongst senior faculty -superficial acts of "diversity" and "equity"--not reflected in actual day-to-day life, still systemically entrenched racist praxis

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