Great Employer - Anonymous employee Cornell University Employee Review

5.0
Jul 6, 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Cornell University provides excellent benefits to faculty and staff, including good retirement plan options and pretty decent health insurance coverage. Salaries are good (especially given the cost of living in the area).

Cons

Ithaca is in the middle of nowhere. If you place any value of having access to good shopping and an active dating scene, Ithaca is not the place for you. However, it is a good city for raising a family.

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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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