Excellent employer - Postdoctoral Research Fellow MIT Employee Review

5.0
Oct 9, 2021
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Pros

During the pandemic MIT worked exceptionally hard to protect emplyees' safety while providing sufficient testing to keep labs and shared facilities up and running. MIT provides lots of career-building resources for postdocs and some nice benefits, like MBTA passes.

Cons

If you have outside funding as a postdoc fellow, you are technically an "MIT affiliate". The health insurance plans available through MIT for affiliates are significantly worse than those provided to normal employees.

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5.0
Jun 4, 2026
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Pros

It is a great institution to do cutting-edge research

Cons

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5.0
Jun 4, 2026
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Pros

good admin support great research environment

Cons

cost of living is expensive (postdoc salary is ~60% area median income)

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