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The Scripps Research Institute

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The Scripps Research Institute reviews

4.2

85% would recommend to a friend

(618 total reviews)

Peter Schultz

79% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

The Scripps Research Institute has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 618 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The The Scripps Research Institute employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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618 reviews
5.0
Jan 18, 2014

Research Associate

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Pros

World class research environment. World class postdocs and graduate students. Opportunity to make an impact.

Cons

Experience as a research associate largely depends on the advisors. There are some advisors that are great mentors, others that exploit people in their labs by forcing long hours.

1.0
Nov 10, 2013

Horrendously top heavy!

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Pros

It's decently flexible, in a good location, and has prestige. However, I would say it's only good for building your resume.

Cons

They will not pay you what you are worth. They will give you the work and responsibilities of two jobs and refuse to promote you. All this despite the fact you have over the qualifications necessary your job description and what you are doing currently exceeds the responsibilities of the descriptions on their own HR site. They will ask you to forfeit benefits like insurance so they can "save money" even though you are entitled to them being full time. Basically they don't want to pay you and quite possibly don't have the money to do so because of their overhead being at 99.5 percent. If you are going to work here I recommend getting in and out fast just so you can put their name on your resume and go to a better company. If you look around the halls you'll notice many empty labs because universities like Rice have been able to offer much better accommodations for the scientists.

1.0
Feb 11, 2013

Terrible

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Pros

Science was interesting but the people really not good.

Cons

Destroyed my career and ruined years of work. Took NIH money and wasted it.

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