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Northeastern University reviews

4.2

79% would recommend to a friend

(3,539 total reviews)
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Joseph E. Aoun

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61% positive business outlook

Northeastern University has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 3,539 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Northeastern University 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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4K reviews
2.0
May 17, 2018

Good for short-term career advancement

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good reputation; pay was relatively good; tuition benefit for employee/spouse/children; global student body.

Cons

In my middle management position, I was extremely overworked. Colleges and central offices compete with one another rather than work together toward a common goal (which was also unclear). The Institution is run like a Corporation; growth for the sake of revenue and increased rankings is far too fast. NU is competing to be the best, but it's on the backs of faculty and staff. I agree with one reviewer who termed it a "shark-like culture."

1.0
Apr 3, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Students are enthusiastic, if ill-prepared. Librarians are wonderful.

Cons

As adjunct faculty, you have no community and no support in the program I was hired into. Students are not well-prepared for upper level courses.

1.0
Jan 27, 2023

Inhumane

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Pros

The pay is decent as an EA.

Cons

The Burlington, MA leadership team is very inhumane. They yell at their employees, are overbearing, and extremely micromanagy. No one is trusted to do anything on their own. There were standing leadership meetings scheduled every Friday at 1pm, and all attendees were expected to work through the weekend following the meeting. Meetings are scheduled over your lunch, and you are encouraged not to go out of the office for lunch. I've had the worst onboarding experience of my life, where months of old work were piled up for me to find on day 1 of my employment. I wasn't allowed the time to properly do any mandatory trainings, and it took almost a month to get access to software that I needed to do my job because my boss was unbelievably negligent. The practice and overall style of management in that office is extremely outdated, including their software and technology. Leadership is old, and only interested in doing things one way, and one way only. There is zero creativity. Leadership talks down to you, and you work for them, not with them. They lied about the hybrid expectation during the interview, stating it was flexible 1-2 in office, then pulled a hook line and sinker requiring me to be in office everyday. I wasn't allowed to have focus time on my calendar, I was told by my boss that I needed to be available at all times. My boss was very inconsiderate of people's time, she would drop sudden teams calls constantly checking in anytime I was granted a work from home day, after begging. Leadership had a very negative outlook on all things. The icing on the cake, no vending machines anywhere in this newish building.

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