The University - Graduate Research Assistant Cornell University Employee Review

4.0
Mar 1, 2010
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Pros

The library is wonderful, you can borrow just about any book that's currently in press, and if it's not available, you can ask the university to purchase it. The academic facilities are wonderful. People are very friendly. Overall a great place to work.

Cons

Like as universities, things are always changing, but more so at Cornell - probably because its a competitive Ivy league. If you prefer big cities, Ithaca is not the place for you.

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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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