One of the best research organizations to work at! - JRF - Junior Research Fellow CERN Employee Review

5.0
Sep 23, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

- great colleagues and opportunity to learn fundamental physics at the forefront. - diversity - people from nearly 100 nationalities come together to work at CERN. - Geneva is a great place to live in. - work-life balance

Cons

- sometimes technologies we use are not cutting edge in order to maintain legacy software or simply because operating a super massive machine such as LHC requires you to be safe and do things the old school way. not a complete drawback but - (if not in physics) good career starter but scope for permanent positions is limited.

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5.0
Apr 22, 2026
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Pros

The employment process is very smooth and supportive. The technical team interviewed me for technical skills, and the HR is very supportive and helpful. Especially I haven't been employed by CERN previously, so I have a lot of questions. The employment team is very helpful and answered all my questions patiently. Also I like the job and my work very much.

Cons

Maybe the primary communication method could be email instead of phone calls? I sometimes miss phone calls, but will check every email.

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5.0
Oct 16, 2025
Anonymous intern
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Pros

Interesting work and projects Talented work force Lots of opportunities to learn

Cons

Expensive area Should learn French to an intermediate level

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