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Red Flags - Manager Columbia University Employee Review

1.0
3 July 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits are okay, take advantage of free course credits!!

Cons

Hit an miss, there are some terrible managers in this organization and toxic work environments are often left unchecked. Please vet who you’ll be working for and what they’ve promised you before accepting anything!!! This place can be great and it can be absolutely horrible. Just depends who you work for. That these I consistencies exist is a big red flag on HR and the Ombuds office. In short, CU as a workplace is nothing like CU as a university presents itself. I came in a student, bamboozled by the high standards, only to be crushed by the horrendous conditions “behind the curtain.” If you expect Ivy-league standards, please expect to be sorely disappointed!

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Cons

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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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