Great experience - Campus Tour Guide Cornell University Employee Review

4.0
Jul 9, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Great team, really fun experience, some time to do homework while working, mostly empathetic professional staff. Get to meet really interesting people (both students and visitors) and help people learn more about Ithaca, Cornell, and the college application process! Got to build a huge network at Cornell spanning many majors and colleges, which is a lot harder to do in other clubs/organizations. Great views out of the visitor center.

Cons

sometimes professional staff might not respond to concerns/proposals, you have to have thick skin when answering phones coming into the university as callers can be insane, somewhat repetitive work (you really have to like it)

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5.0
Jul 13, 2026
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Pros

Pay was good, work load was manageable, and I learned a lot

Cons

No cons at all, It was a good experience being a TA

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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