Lively, Student-Centered Place to Work - Anonymous employee Berklee Employee Review

4.0
May 24, 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Excellent benefits. Very good work-life balance such as flex hours during summers, occasional work from home, and a convivial work atmosphere with talented, fun colleagues.

Cons

Sub-optimal workspaces for most teams; no real "campus" outside of the Berklee buildings. Some middle managers (and some senior managers) can be hidebound, resulting in obnoxiously inefficient workflows. Toxic relationships between divisions results in silos. For instance, there is effectively no working relationship between the IT department and the faculty teams. This has resulted in some teams hiring their own "in-house" IT who don't talk to the IT department.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
Apr 20, 2026
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Pros

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Cons

-forced to train the ai bot that will replace you -despite being the top performer on your team and being reassured repeatedly your job is secure, you will get laid off with no explanation or respect -c suite prefers to keep their 500k+ salaries and 80k+ bonuses even if it means laying off 80+ employees who only make 55k -CEO led first layoffs in berklee's entire history, no transparency with any managers, no discussion or anything -CEO used money "saved" from layoffs to give other employees bonuses and buy unnecessary property

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