Cornell University Employer Reviews

The job is fun and challenging. The exchange with Students and Co-workers is fulfilling

Ithaca is a nice place to live, and overall my experience at Cornell was also good. Smart people to work with, good office culture, interesting problems to work on. Absolutely beautiful weather in summer and fall. However, freezing and dreary in the long winter.

Even with low pay, no benefits, and part time/temp status, I enjoyed every minute of working here. Sometimes I felt like getting paid was a bonus. I really loved my coworkers and the boss/Chef Manager. This job helped me achieve some financial goals and fed me dinner along the way!

I conduct research as a graduate student.
Ithaca is cold in winter, but Cornell is warm!

There, I could extend my skills in some diverse area, e.g. Instrumentation, Signal and Image Processing, Validation and Verification, Risk Analysis, Microfluidics, Drug Toxicity Detection, Mechanobiology, Computation and Data Analysis, Biomaterials and Rehabilitation Engineering, etc.

You are surrounded by some great minds, many who are both your peers and are willing to help you succeed in your academic mission.

go in at 12pm and start to look at the ingredients that will be needed for the dinner service. Find a boss and have them get what ever i need, if it is not available. Then depending on what day of the week it is, i start to make what type of food is supposed to be served. It can either be Grill food( hamburgers, hot dogs, chicken, chili, cornbread, – more... and frech fries.) Indian, Mexican, Italian, or Thai. I make 2 entrees. one meat and one vegetarian. and for side dishes. 1 vegan, 1 starch, and 2 vegetable. When preping we always have to have enough food for 500 students. then when dinner starts at 5pm. i have to keep putting fresh food out following haccp procedures. keep a temp log for every 1 hour. and take correction actions when needed. Then clean up after service ends – less

Cornell is a good place to work if you are near the end of your career or just need a check and solid benefits. Work is interesting and with over 9000 employees and many departments there is variety The long term management and HR practices are 15 years behind the times. Ambition is not valued; raises and promotions are are administered equally. Poor – more... performers are abundant – less

Your experience as an employee at Cornell will be highly dependent on your direct supervisor. As an employer, Cornell offers excellent benefits and good life-work balance.

I work for a Sociopath. This prof. is very charming and evil, so he fools most of the people most of the time. He is the definition of a serial bully. Two weeks after his former target left for greener pastures, he started to target me. I also feel that because I do not react to his attempts to hurt me, I get sidelined. I am not longer considered intelligent – more... or useful, although I am listed on half of his publications. The institution of Cornell in of itself is not a bad place to work. In this area of New York your options for employment are few and far between. Essentially, you take what you get, and that is how you are treated here! – less

My typically day consisted of doing many thing. Such as making containers full of Chlamydomonas suspended in medium and studing the light absorption and testing the amount of protein in the solution and the DNA in the Chlamydomonas. I also Ran Western Blot, Protein Assays and PCR. I produced electrophoresis gels and ran them. I also used PCR machine, – more... spectrophotometer, centrifuge, electrophoresis machine, and much more equipment.

The hardest part was learning to have lot of initiative at work in order to get long term project done.

My co-workers were all very nice and we would have get together often outside of work. Although when at work I only would be working directly with two of the people. – less

the lab I was in offered limited room for growth, though that varies widely from lab to lab.

A great opportunity but many flaws in the management department.

cornell is a five star professional workplace which takes excellant care of its employees

great benefits but if supervisor does not like you
they will fire you
what suoervisor walks into a office n does not speak
i worked for a real tool there initials jb

I am a very big people person. Having the ability to interact with all kinds of people in my day made it a great place to work. Someone always made everyone laugh and we were all able to pull together and work as a team as well as alone when needed. My favorite positions held with Cornell were the Service Coordinator and Administrative Assistant postions. – more... Overall i had a great experience. The only downfall was i was moved around because they wanted to keep me then finally i was let go because the last position ended up being a term with an end date. – less

Training program was great and the instructors were very well trained and prepared

More politics than I care for, but I loved my job. My supervisor was a good person and I loved the students and residents.

Is a good place to grow up! has good benefit, if you are the only source of income in your household, you will need an additional job

a typical day was with great evaluations of educational material
we learned not only about the material at hand but also about the many approaches to studying and explaining data or facts
the class mates were all focused and extremely hard working
the hardest part was taking multiple classes and getting a hundred on everything but it was a great challenge
the – more... most enjoyable part of the school was getting a good grade knowing your hard work payed off – less