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4.0

65% would recommend to a friend

(5,406 total reviews)
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Lee C. Bollinger

60% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

Columbia University has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 5,406 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Columbia University employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Educación industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Nov 8, 2020
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Pros

I don't have anything positive to say.

Cons

CUIT initially told me that my work hours could be flexible. After I was hired, they told me they had a "sudden change" of plans, and I had to work a significantly increased number of hours a week, which became very difficult to manage with my schoolwork. CUIT had the audacity to fire me after telling me to come into work on a Saturday, when no one was in the office. I tried on multiple occasions to contact my supervisor, when, after a few hours of wasting my time, I finally got into contact with my supervisor only for him to tell me that no one was in the office in that day. I was fired a few days later. Yes, you read that correctly -- I was fired after CUIT wasted several hours of my time. Don't get me wrong, I wasn't the ideal employee and had my fair share of screwups, but I honestly had no reason to be an "ideal employee" given how deceptive CUIT was. In retrospect, I was happy to be fired from CUIT.

1.0
Jul 7, 2020

Don't do it

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Pros

I couldn't really think of any other than I guess experience.

Cons

They prefer to give too much work to one or two people and blame them all the time than to hire extra help. Very few people are happy and the only ones that maybe are the higher-ups who are making the actual money. They treat the rest of us as if we are dirt while we do a significant amount of work that are real assets to the entire hospital.

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