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Community-driven, low pay - Sr. Research Associate Worcester Polytech Employee Review

4.0
Sep 10, 2024
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Pros

Great community, faculty governance is strong, data-grounded decision making

Cons

Pay increases do not keep up with inflation, local housing market is unaffordable at current pay rates (ave rent for 2 bedroom is higher than my boss's mortgage; unoccupied rental rate below 2%)

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5.0
May 22, 2026
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Pros

Flexible, great professors, strong union

Cons

Project oriented, benefits ok for graduate worker but not great

4.0
Jun 24, 2026
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Pros

Can be pretty easy if most of your work is office hours. I had about seven hours a week and most of the time there weren't many students.

Cons

Grading was a lot harder than I expected. Pretty demoralizing honestly; a lot of clearly ChatGPT submissions (ECE programming class mostly with freshmen who'd never seen code before, so not surprising). Grading paper exams was fine.

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