Columbia University Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Columbia University full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – OK management but need better employee career counseling

Cons – slow career paths. Little management oversight

Advice to Senior Management – Pay more

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Columbia University full-time for more than a year

Pros – nice science environment, good collaboration

Cons – living in the uptown of new york

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Columbia University full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Nice campus
Intellectual environment
Good people
Work / Life balance can be achieved with effort.

Cons – Hard to get anything done. Some effective people get overloaded and others are left without anything to do and are bored.

Advice to Senior Management – Re-instate the tuition benefit

Current Employee – been working at Columbia University full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Love working with my teams. Meet new people everyday. Routine work daily. Vacation and sick time ok. Have made some good friends, including co-workers and students. Things has change some for the good and some for the bad..... Have learned alot on how to deal and interact with people from all over the world.

Cons – Some department are not team players, no room for growth. Have to transfer to new position in order to move up. Trying to union bust. Limited to certain promgrams to study. Pay could be better. Some of the Upper management are not friendly. When new programs or systems are brought in no proper training and some time no real beneifits to emplyees who rely on it as a part of daily task. It may not matter how well you work at it all they see is the color of your skin and you may not get a fair overview because of it.

Advice to Senior Management – Greet employees with smiles. Get employees input on programs that will affected they daily tasks. Have productive meeting that will benefit employees as well as the students.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Columbia University

Pros – Some of the most intelligent people on the planet work here. Lots of opportunities to collaborate across disciplines.

Cons – It takes about 2 months to get paid when you begin. Reimbursements? MAYbe you'll be paid back within 3 months, maybe not.

Advice to Senior Management – Make your administrators responsible for their actions, or in almost every case, their INaction.

– I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Columbia University part-time for less than a year

Pros – Most are flexible to your demands as a student and are willing to work with your schedule. Great networking with professors/programs.

Cons – The system is highly bureaucratic and difficult to work in. IT department needs some work

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Columbia University full-time for less than a year

Pros – good degree and good environment

Cons – safety issues and hard work issues

Former Employee – worked at Columbia University part-time

Pros – research environment is absolutely great -- intellectually challenging and rewarding

Cons – The pay is rather low but not surprising as it is the same in most academic research enviroments

Current Employee – been working at Columbia University full-time for more than a year

Pros – You come across a wide variety of people.

Cons – Limited scope of an employee.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Columbia University full-time

Pros – *Good people
*Interesting work impacting on a global scale
*Broad range of ever changing projects
*Exposer to many diverse working experiences form sourcing a test tube, to shipping motocycles to South Afica or negotiating contracts for world class researchers to consult on specific projects.
*Many opportunities with in the University

Cons – *Very Hierarchal
*You can spends months on a project working with a team and then have all your efforts disregarded because you never know who the final decision maker is.
*Work life is difficult

Advice to Senior Management – Lean Management

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend