Cornell-great school if you want an academic job. - Graduate Student Cornell University Employee Review

4.0
Sep 30, 2008
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Pros

Lots of smart people...the undergrads can be a handful sometimes, though. The benefits package is good - it's surprisingly nice to be able to have most of one's health needs handled at the school's clinic on campus. During the summer, Ithaca is absolutely spectacular.

Cons

Bureaucracy can be enraging; to much organizational inertia for things to change very quickly. I imagine there is significant variation in the way graduate students are treated across departments, but I have not heard anything specific. Winter here can definitely get old - I am from a southern state, so it took a season to learn how to deal with it. However, I almost like it now.

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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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