Cornell University Reviews

Pros

Benefits, People, Atmosphere, Job responsibility’s, culture, office, time off (holidays, sick, vacay, etc).

Cons

Commute (not their fault obviously), bus ride from car to office

Pros

I started at Cornell's Survey Research Institute (SRI) in early 2019. I began as a temporary research assistant, working 10-15 hours a week. I thought it would be a dead-end job, but I ended up enjoying the people I work with and the fast pace office call center setting, and was able to apply for a promotion. I'm now working at SRI fulltime and love to interact with the fulltime staff as well as the temporary research assistants. I think it's a really fun and young group of people, which can be rare in a workplace. Management keeps employees interacting with each other with kick-off meetings before calling projects and a celebration when those projects are done. Management has also been proactive during COVID-19 to keep staff employed.

Cons

Cold calling people on the phone is a difficult job and requires a lot of persistence. It's not the right job for everybody, and the learning curve with regards to the equipment functions and protocols to memorize is steep.