Excellent benefits, frustrating bureaucracy - Anonymous employee MIT Employee Review

Can be very siloed on administration side, and bureaucracy can be time consuming to navigate. There is often a public way to do something, and then a legwork and politics-heavy way. People who want to work in flexible teams to solve problems may encounter heavy resistance - you'll often encounter the "that's not my job, I'm too busy" runaround. HR is ineffectual and slow, both when I was hiring and when I was firing (or trying to fire).