Great professional and personal experience - Anonymous employee NIH Employee Review

4.0
2 Oct 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Wide community for networking, state of the art instruments, each lab has fixed funding no need to prepare grants

Cons

From a foreigner perspective, NIH only support J-1 visas (very hard to get H-1B visa for postdocs)

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Cons

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4.0
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Pros

-flexible -interesting -rewarding -good networking

Cons

-different expectations in each lab

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