Pros
Retirement matching is fairly good (5%, plus 5% towards pension after a year). And I appreciate the communications that come from the very top - they tend to be well composed, timely, insightful, helpful, and fairly clear. Good words - but alas, execution doesn't seem to match.
Cons
Inept. From an utterly incompetent IT department (ironic, right!?), to a miserable HR department who responds in one word, ambiguous replies (if they reply at all), to crap adaptation to a Covid working world (force people to come in 5 days a week - even those with absolutely no duties that require being on-site, and only help folks with getting to work via superspreader or ill-controlled scenarios {mass transit and Uber}, and over-crowded in-person meetings), to unimpressive parental leave policies that are substantially worse than any colleague I've spoken to in other universities or experienced in the non-profits before the PFMLA. Conditions on employment also seem to change without notice. (e.g. introducing out of the blue that, though we were hired at a certain salary with a "fully funded position," within the next few months we have to have personally raised a good portion of our salary if we want to get paid.) I'm just time-and-again, struck by how unimpressive MIT really is.