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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is IDA stabilized? Are they rehiring?[/quote]

FWIW - RAND continued to have open positions and hire even while doing a RIF. While the company is actively shedding it’s insitituional knowledge and deep expertise, it is still hiring for 2 year positions focused only on AI. Seems to be indicative of where the CEO has shifted the priorities. [/quote]

RAND is currently hiring a ton of summer associates…. while laying off their full time research staff.[/quote]

I am very sorry but it is OCTOBER so they are not yet hiring summer associates.  Those two year AI positions may be linked to a particular contract and current full time staff may not have the expertise.  And what are YOU doing to bring in new work?   All that time complaining on the internet could usefully be spent on something more productive. [/quote]

I am very sorry that you have no idea what is going on because RAND is hiring summer associates right now as you could see on their website https://rand.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/External_Career_Site/ Full time staff do have the expertise but RAND leadership has either RIF'd them, enticed them to take a buyout, or forced them to leave because of the crumbling of RAND's governance structure due to poor senior leadership. I have brought in quite a bit of work thank you very much, despite the very clear and public governance breakdown inside of RAND. I probably could have brought in even more work if this breakdown had not occurred in the first place.
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The person you are responding to doesn’t seem to be interested in anything other than telling everyone else that they are in the wrong, regardless of the topic, or underlying assumptions (which at least one person has noted were false). It appears as though it’s the same person who is insisting that anyone who isn’t singing the praises of the current RAND leadership is a disgruntled RAND employee who should just quit. Particularly interesting to me is that the person has resorted to ad hominem attacks for seemingly no reason. And it appears as though when someone else pointed out that some RAND employees are driven by the mission, that this person doesn’t think that is a valid reason to try and hold out and hope for change, implying that this person doesn’t feel driven by the mission.

I heard that additional rounds of layoffs are in progress at RAND.  Operating under the assumption that you are a RAND employee, I hope things are going as well for you as they can.

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