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Columbia University

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Don't work in IT at Columbia; avoid. - IT Professional Columbia University Employee Review

1.0
16 July 2018
Recommend
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Pros

- Tuition re-reimbursement (starting after a few years) - Lovely Campus

Cons

- IT staff are shuffled into the worst work spaces; cubes, basements with no natural light - Pay is FAR below industry standards - Politics, Politics, Politics... getting ahead has nothing to do with hard work or achievement. Getting ahead has to do with covering for others incompetence

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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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