Cornell University - Graduate Student Researcher - Graduate Student Researcher Cornell University Employee Review

4.0
Feb 25, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

The environment is very collaborative and supports communication between researchers and laboratories. This fosters both innovation and efficiency in research.

Cons

Central New York in general is extremely cold during the winters, where frequent snow and the lack of sunshine leads to a rather poor quality of life. Additionally, Cornell University is located in an area with little choice in types of food cuisines.

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5.0
Jul 2, 2026
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Pros

great place to work. Beautiful campus

Cons

out of no where location.

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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