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Harvard University

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Harvard University is an institution of higher learning but lacks in much needed common sense. - Anonymous employee Harvard University Employee Review

3.0
Jan 20, 2010
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Pros

They offer decent benefits and my co-workers are great. There's an adequate opportunity to advance, but those opportunities are few and far between.

Cons

The university is operated and run by the Corporation which oversees all of the university. At times they've displayed poor decision making especially in light of recent economic problems in the country, as well as with the decrease in value of the university's endowment.

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5.0
Jun 25, 2026
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Pros

A PhD is always very advisor/PI dependent, but I had a great experience with room to learn, grow, and explore interesting research questions. As with any PhD program you’ll work pretty hard for relatively lower pay and perhaps less directly applicable industry career trajectory at the end, but if you find good people to tackle the journey with and get to work on interesting problems I personally think the journey is worthwhile!

Cons

Less of a program wide cohort in my particular engineering field. Some funding challenges with the govt last year but seem mostly back now, apart from the recent administration issues funding wasn’t generally a challenge

4.0
Jun 29, 2026
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Pros

Helpful to work while in school.

Cons

Nothing really - loved it a lot!

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