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Scientists managing engineers => Postdoca - Scientific Programmer European Bioinformatics Institute Employee Review

3.0
27 Sept 2025
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Pros

* Good pay (tax free) with many benefits * Best HR I’ve ever interacted with * Beautiful campus

Cons

* Senior leadership are usually scientists who published popular scientific computing work but who are not professional software leaders. Therefore, they pigeonhole staff info ‘postdoc’ roles and silos. It’s a frustrating work experience because everyone is constantly reinventing the wheel and the calibre of work output is very low. * Work environment favours politicking and sycophancy.

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5.0
31 Aug 2017
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Pros

You have opportunities to work with top talents in the field of bioinformatics.

Cons

Be aware of the "nine year rule" - people have to move on from EBI after serving there for 9 years. This is really good and bad.

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5.0
21 Jul 2016
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Pros

One of the best places to work on cutting edge computational biology research. Great diversity and culture.

Cons

A little bit isolated from the nearest city, Cambridge, but not much of a problem since they have a shuttle that runs very smoothly every day.

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