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 128 reviews)); "Best experience ever Great people" ((in 82 reviews)); "Amazing environment and great colleagues." ((in 56 reviews)); "Good benefits for CERN contracts" ((in 50 reviews)); "Good work life balance and vast interesting domains of activity." ((in 38 reviews))

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

"Bad management, nothing else fdgdfgdf" ((in 39 reviews)); "No career progression; no teleworking outside of the region" ((in 16 reviews)); "Career opportunities are limited, cannot stay long" ((in 13 reviews)); "Had 5 supervisors, overall)" ((in 11 reviews)); "Incredible nepotism everywhere." ((in 7 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

4.0

Jan 7, 2020

Great conditions, terrible contract policy

Controls & automation engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Vacations, great perks and conditions, good salary (for the region), interesting field.

Cons

Terrible hiring policy (indeterminate contracts are pretty hard to get, even if you've worked there for 10 years).

4.0

Jan 2, 2020

Excellent international environment but not too much control over the resources involved

Robotics r&d developer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Flexible working hours, internation environment, state of the art technologies, worlwide health insurance coverage

Cons

Really bad control over the resources in some departments

4.0

Dec 28, 2019

Nice working experience

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Good conditions. Good environment. Awesome place to work. no

Cons

bad organization between different teams

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