Does CERN pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, CERN employees rate their compensation and benefits as 4.3 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at CERN. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at CERN?

91% of CERN employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated CERN 4.5 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.5 for culture and values and 3.7 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at CERN?

Technical Student (125) , Software Engineer (112) , Fellow (61) , PhD Student (35) , Senior Fellow (24) , Doctoral Student (23) , Research Fellow (23) , Internship (22) , Mechanical Engineer (20) , Junior Fellow (19) , Postdoctoral Fellow (19) , Engineer (18) , Project Associate (18) , Intern (16) , Administrative Student (15)

What are the pros of working at CERN according to real employee reviews?

"Good salary (if you're not Swiss)" ((in 131 reviews)); "Best experience ever Great people" ((in 75 reviews)); "Amazing environment and great colleagues." ((in 58 reviews)); "good benefits and health insurance" ((in 45 reviews)); "Good work/life balance" ((in 36 reviews))

What are the cons of working at CERN according to real employee reviews?

"Bad management, nothing else fdgdfgdf" ((in 36 reviews)); "Slow career progression" ((in 15 reviews)); "Had 5 supervisors, overall)" ((in 11 reviews)); "Incredible nepotism everywhere." ((in 8 reviews)); "Old buildings with no AC" ((in 6 reviews))

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4.4

91% would recommend to a friend

(856 total reviews)

Fabiola Gianotti

91% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.5

Culture & values

4.5

Diversity & inclusion

4.5

Work/Life balance

4.3

Compensation and benefits

3.9

Senior management

3.7

Career opportunities

CERN has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 856 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The CERN employee rating is 21% above average for employers within the Regierung & öffentliche Verwaltung industry (3.6 stars).

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856 reviews

3.0

Sep 2, 2021

Top down management

Fellow engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Salary, holidays, location, networking, technical interest, trainings, many clubs.

Cons

Top-down management, lack of diversity (gender and origin), unequal statuses because of the variety of working contracts, no team working. Buildings from the 60 with separate offices. No home office allowed in the team.

4.0

Aug 25, 2021

PhD position

Accelerator physicist

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

International environment Interdisciplinary research groups Many sports groups (ski, running, climbing...)

Cons

Not easy to attend to conferences

5.0

Aug 21, 2021

Awesome place

Staff rn

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Great environment, awesome food, mountains and lake!

Cons

Sometimes politics in 'hot-topic' physics groups

CERN Response

Thank you for your positive review!

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