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Columbia University reviews

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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4.0
Mar 18, 2016

Good...until it's not

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Mostly intelligent people, decent benefits (medical, etc), 20+ vacation days per year.

Cons

The handful of mediocre talent who stick around departments for decades, huge hierarchy problem, job stagnation, minimal advancement opportunities, no transparency.

5.0
Jan 9, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Columbia has great benefits and time off. Very flexible and has great training opportunities. On the tech side going to conferences the prestiges value is extremely helpful. Great people and community to help with my skills. Free subscription resources to online materials like Lynda.com and digital books.

Cons

The pay at the university is less than businesses. Columbia has a sense of you should be honored to work here. The tech is not updated and many things are not current or state of the art. Budgets need to be kept to and do not change much year to year. All departments are not unified. This means every department and section of the main IT unit are separate. Working in a place where everything is seprate is hard and sometimes more costly since there is redundant contracts.

5.0
Nov 23, 2015

Assistant Director

Anonymous employee
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Pros

There was great collaboration among colleagues. Everyone was respectful of each other. Generally a great place to work and grow in your career.

Cons

New York City is an expensive place to live. And it is very difficult to live outside of the city and commute in. I feel that is the biggest con to working at Columbia.

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