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Great benefits, lack of direction - IT Service Specialist Harvard University Employee Review

3.0
30 Dec 2025
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Pros

Great overall benefits, decent pay rates, remote work depending on your position and management (or lackthereof) of on-premises infrastructure.

Cons

Management of my team was a revolving door with no long-term direction or suggestions/support from leadership. We were expected to perform enterprise-level work with a small handful of employees and no real buy-in from the higher-ups.

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5.0
25 Jun 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

5.0
23 Jun 2026
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Pros

Friendly and helpful coworkers, easy systems

Cons

Honestly don’t have anything bad to say

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