great benefits if you can work within a bureaucracy - Editor Cornell University Employee Review

4.0
Aug 6, 2008
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Pros

The employee benefits are wonderful, particularly medical and 401K. My particular supervisor was wonderful. I had to take medical leave and I could not have asked for a better boss during that time. She was great at giving performance reviews; no matter what your performance, you always left her office feeling great. She has retired since then.

Cons

Like all big organizations, it's a bureaucracy, so there's red tape and things move slowly.

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5.0
Jul 2, 2026
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Pros

great place to work. Beautiful campus

Cons

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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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