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easy job - Research Analyst Harvard University Employee Review

3.0
May 6, 2010
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Pros

easy job, people are nice and ready to help others.. little pressure. rarely need to fight for deadlines...located in harvard community...living expense is not as high as that in big city

Cons

little challenge, low payment. not so promising career path. suitable for someone who want to apply for phd in harvard univ

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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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