Past Intern - Anonymous employee Smithsonian Employee Review

5.0
13 July 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Company with some much history and information and knowledge to share, really inspiring place to work, people really enthusiastic about their area of focus is; continuing to do research; learn something new every day

Cons

Such a big institution that it could be hard to start something new (like a campaign, etc.), can see how it could get stuck in its ways; also can be hard with so many museums because each one wants to focus on itself to promote, so promoting individual museums vs. the entire smithsonian name; also seems like limited job opportunities after interning

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Cons

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Cons

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