A great place to be for nanotech - Graduate Research Assistant Cornell University Employee Review

4.0
Mar 30, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Excellent facilities and facility management, smart co-workers of diverse backgrounds, collaboration-friendly atmosphere, good benefits package, higher salary than other grad students, nice natural surroundings/ waterfalls, cool downtown commons area in ithaca

Cons

Cold, occasionally nasty weather but not as snowy as people think, difficult to access big cities (not counting Binghamton and Syracuse (~1hr away),

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5.0
Jul 2, 2026
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Pros

great place to work. Beautiful campus

Cons

out of no where location.

2.0
Jun 25, 2026
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Pros

Time off, subsidy for children for college, small grant for childcare, and remote work ability.

Cons

Heavily bureacratic, top-down structure with zero creative ability unless it's around AI. No performance reviews from the bottom-up tell you a lot. Cornell is going through very tough times and employees are overworked, underpaid and have no room to grow or advance and heavy negative sentiment regarding all of the changes happening and further budget cuts. You need to move to another unit and apply to a higher position that way to get any type of promotion, despite your performance, goals and achievements. We get annual SIP that is below inflation and never any performance bonuses.

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