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3.5
People You Work With
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Support You Get
4.2
Way You Work
4.2
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Working at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY: 59 Employee Reviews

Residential Counselor

What do you like about working at Cornell University?

"I was doing what I liked with people I liked working with."

What don't you like about working at Cornell University?

"There wasn't a full time position available for me to stay."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Research Associate

What do you like about working at Cornell University?

"The company has a great reputation. It is well known. The company allows employees to use their skills to their full potential and enhance on what they know."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"I don't have tips because after being interviewed by them, the process was enlightening and the questions were standard. Most interviews are similar to this one."

What don't you like about working at Cornell University?

"My old company was not using my skills to the full potential. I would like to move up so that I can enhance my skills and be a great asset to the company."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"In my old company, management should offer more positions in the company for certain employees to move up."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Assistant Director

"Excellent experience."

What do you like about working at Cornell University?

"Magical environment - it's one of the greatest universities in the world and amazing things happen every day."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Know what you want to get out of the experience and pursue opportunities aggressively."

What don't you like about working at Cornell University?

"Limited opportunity for advancement, bureaucratic culture, dysfunctional information technology organization, opportunities for development are often more aspirational than practically available."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Develop culture of promoting from within, culture of developing staff skills and making educational opportunities readily available."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 1 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 1 / 5
Company Culture 2 / 5 Way You Work 3 / 5
Event Manager

"Part time job on campus."

What do you like about working at Cornell University?

"The independence, flexibility, and technical work required. I also enjoyed training new employees."

What don't you like about working at Cornell University?

"The long hours, the late nights, and the last minute problems."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They need to buy some better sound equipment and get a ramp for the truck."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Graduate Teaching Assistant

"This experience allowed me to teach students within a lab setting."

What do you like about working at Cornell University?

"It gave me an opportunity to support and teach students."

What don't you like about working at Cornell University?

"I enjoyed my experience working in this capacity. There was not much I did not like."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I have little to no suggestions for management. This position was well suited for me."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Dining Manager

"It was a great learning experience."

What do you like about working at Cornell University?

"I enjoyed meeting students from all over the globe. I gained a great deal of respect from all of my co-workers."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Just be honest and don't feel intimidated. If you are hired, do the job to the best of your ability."

What don't you like about working at Cornell University?

"There is a lot of micro managing that happens on a daily basis."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I think that upper management should have more confidence in their managers."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 2 / 5 Rewards You Receive 2 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 3 / 5
Webmaster

"My experience at Cornell allowed me to expand my breadth of experience."

What do you like about working at Cornell University?

"I like the educational atmosphere, and the interesting people you meet, and interesting work you do."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"I do not have any tips. There are so many different groups to work with on campus, and I'm sure they all work differently. It is a beautiful campus, and nice place to work if you live in the area."

What don't you like about working at Cornell University?

"There is not a lot of room for movement in the university."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Some process improvements to improve cost for our customers, and less time spent for the contributors."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Programmer Analyst

"A 23-year career based on soft money - pure providence!"

What do you like about working at Cornell University?

"The people are focused but friendly, and you are judged on what you can do."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Competence is highly regarded and rewarded; incompetence will leave you isolated."

What don't you like about working at Cornell University?

"There is nothing I do not like about working at Cornell."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Leave things the way they are in research; put the control down to the lowest level possible."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Acting Director

What do you like about working at Cornell University?

"The setting and atmosphere were great, the people were fantastic."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Ask to have the vision for the future explained to you!"

What don't you like about working at Cornell University?

"As the economic situation forced a realignment of our approach to IT, the work became less interesting."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Make sure you have a vision that your organization as a whole believes in."

Person You Work For 3 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Research Engineer
Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3.1 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Research Associate
Person You Work For 4.8 / 5 People You Work With 4.9 / 5 Work Setting 3.1 / 5
Support You Get 4.7 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3.9 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2.2 / 5
Company Culture 4.9 / 5 Way You Work 3.9 / 5
Researcher
Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4.5 / 5
Company Culture 4.5 / 5 Way You Work 4.5 / 5
Postdoctoral Associate

"I like working in Cornell."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 3.9 / 5 Way You Work 4.5 / 5
Research Assistant

"Cornell was a very wholesome institution to work for."

Person You Work For 4.6 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4.3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 4.4 / 5
Staff Scientist
Person You Work For 4.9 / 5 People You Work With 4.6 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 3.1 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3.1 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2.1 / 5
Company Culture 3.9 / 5 Way You Work 4.8 / 5
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