Harvard University Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Great life, no motivation."

What do you like about working at Harvard University?

"Good balance of personal and professional life."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Make this a stepping stone. Don't fall into the trap and stay there for a long time. Your career will stagnate and you will have done nothing to write on a resume."

What don't you like about working at Harvard University?

"Politics, no professional development, change does not happen rapidly. You do not need to be a performer to work there."

"Great for a college job."

"Great place to grow and improve your life."

What do you like about working at Harvard University?

"I line the learning environment. It give me an opportunity to learn new things."

What don't you like about working at Harvard University?

"Nothing."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Improve communication between staff."

"Challenging - and not necessarily in the best ways."

What do you like about working at Harvard University?

"Sufficiently busy making although too inefficient and distracted by fads."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Ask difficult questions, press for meaningful answers, and don't enable."

What don't you like about working at Harvard University?

"Too quick to grasp at passing fads with too little deep experience."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Employ deeply experienced, technically adept wise & compassionate workers & managers."

"Colleagues mean well, but serious lack of communication resources and autonomy."

What do you like about working at Harvard University?

"I have a flexible work schedule and I work with kind people."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"The group decision-making process here is very frustrating -- ask what the decision-making culture is like for your department."

What don't you like about working at Harvard University?

"There is a serious lack of autonomy in decision-making and use of resources."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Give your communications people the resources they desperately need -- our struggles affect the entire school across all departments."

"HCRI is an academic research organization that performs many of the traditional CRO functions, but brings along with it the partnership it has with Harvard University."

"SAO states that it needs to develop an EE department but will not seriously advance a program, commitment or tools to accomplish this. Budgets are managed poorly and people are sometimes sent home for lack of being able to pay them. Outsourcing of EE projects are the trend. I have worked here for over a year as contract with a stated up front commitment to transition to permanent yet, contract workers are more the norm here."

"Not sure why I am reviewing a previous company for a new application"