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Like a Family - Administrative Assistant Worcester Polytech Employee Review

4.0
8 Jan 2012
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Pros

WPI is truly a community and, although politics are present, it's better than most places. The benefits are good - free tuition at WPI or tuition reimbursement at another school, 403(b) with matching, generous time off (better for salaried employees), and communication is good. All of their employee benefits, including a salary scale are listed on their website.

Cons

The pay is less than in a corporate environment, but that's to be expected in academia. Politics did play a role in the promotion of managers to higher level management; however, there is some room to advance and move into management and/or to make lateral moves. Unfortunately, there are are professors and management who generally treat you badly and, due to tenure or a good relationship with upper management, they'll be there forever, but I found it was better here than most places I've worked.

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5.0
22 May 2026
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Pros

Flexible, great professors, strong union

Cons

Project oriented, benefits ok for graduate worker but not great

4.0
24 June 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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