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      4.1

      80% would recommend to a friend

      (2,341 total reviews)
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      Francis S. Collins

      82% approve of CEO

      60% positive business outlook

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      4.2

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      4.2

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      3.9

      Compensation and benefits

      3.9

      Career opportunities

      3.8

      Senior management

      NIH has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 2,341 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The NIH employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology industry (3.5 stars).

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      4.0
      Sep 26, 2017

      Postbac Research Fellow

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      Pros

      Great learning environment, plenty of resources, cutting edge equipment. Fantastic career springboard as well. Most every postbac went on to top graduate programs and medical schools.

      Cons

      Research experience will depend heavily on PI.

      4.0
      Sep 7, 2017

      Very big, but great if you are self driven

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      Pros

      Huge place with lots of opportunities.

      Cons

      Huge place that tries to be transparent and easy to navigate, but is actually very opaque and requires a lot of work to navigate.

      2.0
      Jul 6, 2017

      Trainee - Visiting Fellow - Hit and miss, cultivate backup/exit strategies from day 1

      Postdoctoral fellow
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      Pros

      1. Office of Intramural Training and Education - They make an effort to prepare fellows for the next step, wherever it may take you. 2. Abundant resources -- resources are available if you are of the disposition to find them. Quite often you may need to circumvent lab politics (starting with your PI) as in anywhere else. 3. The fact that you do not need to apply for additional funding may give you more time to do research and expand your skill-set with other activities available on campus. 4. The opportunity to do "details" (provided your PI allows for it) in other areas of the scientific enterprise (administration, policy, NCATS,...). 5. Numerous opportunities to attend to top notch meetings and conferences. 6. Pay and health care is good (for the postdoc standards in academy).

      Cons

      1. Completely hit and miss with the laboratory you choose --quite often you do not find out until you are already there. Impressive cover up by senior leadership. 2. Average PI age is +67 years. Quite often: not the most novel ideas. Not the most current in terms of the requirements of the postdoc to join the workforce after this training (what was sound advice during the Vietnam war is no longer valid). 3. Excessive amount of power that the PI exert on the postdocs ("trainees", not employees) -- combined with point 2 4. The "review" process of established researches is a joke (tenure-track is different), which means that not only the "smartest and the brightest" remain. 5. Pay is still low when compared to non-academic positions. 6. Bleak perspectives regarding funding -- flat budget during the last decade...less and less purchasing power for "costly" experiments.

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