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Mindless work in a toxic environment: Columbia Disability Services - Graduate Assistant Columbia University Employee Review

1.0
Apr 20, 2026
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Pros

- do mindless work and get paid

Cons

- toxic environment - treat you like school kids - for a student, treat you like full time employees - full time employees act like they do important work - systems are 40 years old, manual labor intensive - no willingness to change or update their systems

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5.0
Jun 14, 2026
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Pros

Great environment, interesting work, and smart colleagues. Tuition benefit is meaningful.

Cons

Raises are not based on performance and don’t meet cost of living raises so comp needs to be improved.

1.0
Jun 12, 2026
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Pros

The people in the trenches The students The passionate faculty

Cons

Leadership, their inefficiencies and poor decisions Very dysfunctional environment HR does whatever leadership tells them to do, including covering issues by "friends of the boss", This favoritism approach also includes approvals for who gets to work from out of state even when the position can be easily filled by local workers and the creation of new jobs for those that are chosen. Very poor financial decisions. Big big pay on top, Low pay on bottom. Very little room for growth unless someone likes you and you are the right color.

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