Columbia University Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Columbia University full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – The research here is top quality and the atmosphere is very collaborative. People in outside labs are very willing to work with you. Classwork is top quality. You're also in the middle of New York, which is nice.

Cons – The management is scattered and chaotic. There are too many departments, none talk to one another. This makes it difficult to get many basic things done. Things like being paid on time.

Also, the shared equipment exists under weird layers of obscure management and much of it is of sub-par quality. Great research doesn't necessary take great equipment, but it sure helps.

Advice to Senior Management – Centralize your management culture. Seriously, a multitude of rulers is not a good thing.

Current Employee – been working at Columbia University

Pros – Great working environment and unbeatable learning opportunity. Hard working students.

Cons – Sometimes it is difficult to set an office hour good for every student.

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

Pros – Great university! You can learn and work on so many different projects. Full of smart people around!

Cons – It's different from the traditional industry pace. Slower...

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

Former Employee – worked at Columbia University part-time for less than a year

Pros – Job is great if you have computer skills, relaxed environment, food is allowed, schedule is flexible, supervisors are willing to work around your class schedule

Cons – Not terribly challenging, supervisors are busy with their own work so they don't always have time to give you assignments, very easy to end up sitting behind a computer for six hours surfing the Internet

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

Former Employee – worked at Columbia University as a contractor for less than a year

Pros – -Pretty good hourly pay
- Good resources and cool classrooms
- Very nice students
- The main campus is beautiful, and this is where most people teach
- Having co-teachers was great
- Observation and critique was great
- You can request a schedule that works well for you. There may be some flexibility as to when your classes meet. So if you're not a morning person, you can request a 10 or 11 AM start.

Cons – - Not all rooms have internet access and/or built-in projectors
- Apparently having one lukewarm student review can lead to a meeting with the director
I only taught one session, and got all 4s and 5s out of 5. However, I have heard that a 3 can land you in trouble. Many part-timers have stopped working there because of this.

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