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      4.0

      65% would recommend to a friend

      (5,432 total reviews)
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      Lee C. Bollinger

      60% approve of CEO

      51% positive business outlook

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      Columbia University has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 5,432 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Columbia University employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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      5K reviews
      3.0
      Jul 8, 2023

      Be Careful What Department You Work For

      Program coordinator
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Good Benefits Prestige of Name

      Cons

      Depending on your department/office, the people you work with can be extremely arrogant, entitled, and overall just bad people (not everyone, but there are plenty of bad apples here) HR does NOT care about you as an employee and does NOT care about your mental health

      3.0
      Jan 30, 2023

      Tuition remission

      Technical specialist
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      - If you want to go back to school the tuition remission benefit is great. However you need to be employed for two full years to take advantage of it - 20+ vacation days - Main campus is beautiful, very easily accessible by bus/subway/bike/walking

      Cons

      - Salary is lower than an equivalent job not in academia, I would not recommend working here unless you plan on taking advantage of the tuition benefit - Aside from slight cost of living increases, raises are hard to come by for full time administrators unless you are promoted and move up to a higher grade - Night and weekend work was advertised as occasional in the job listing but ended up being quite regular

      3.0
      Jan 25, 2023

      Really kind people but team is understaffed

      Department administrator
      Recommend
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      Pros

      I loved worked for the university and the people I worked with were very kind and supportive.

      Cons

      However the workload was completely unmanageable. I felt like I was working three jobs in one and when I tried to express my concerns regarding this, HR just told me that maybe this wasn't a good fit. I was trying to explain that they needed to hire more people to help support the team so the workload could be distributed evenly but they just insisted it was a fit issue and didn't recognize how unreasonable it was to ask someone to take on so much work.

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